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Read by Shyama Perara, David Shaw-Parker & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 49mins) Featuring poems by Rumi, Kabir, Hafiz & others. Islam is one of the world’s great religions and over the centuries one of its strongest voices. For Peace. For Tolerance. For the realisation that we are all in this World...
(Unabridged: 2hrs 21mins) Perhaps best known for her classic novel The Age of Innocence Wharton loved the short story form because its brevity allowed her to concentrate on telling the story. In these three powerful stories, Edith Wharton transports the listener to the turn of the century where she depicts (without...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Eric Meyers & Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 3hrs 31mins) Featuring stories by HP Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, MR James & more. An urban myth is often quoted that you are never further than six feet from a rat in any built-up area. The true figure is nearer one...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 4hrs 52mins) Science, better diet, advanced medicines are all part of a process that in the modern age keep most of us going to a ripe old age. In previous times some diseases could only be slowed and not defeated. There toil...
Read by Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 4hr 12mins) Edgar Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts on 19th January 1809. His father abandoned his family the following year and within a year his mother had died leaving him an orphan. He was taken in by the Allan family but never formally adopted although...
Read by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 2hrs 52mins) The Bard, William Shakespeare, is the supreme talent of playwriting and perhaps also of those 14 lines of verse we call the Sonnet. The Elizabethan Sonnet Cycle was a popular form for poets in the 16th Century with...
Read by Sean Barrett, Ghizela Rowe & Laurel Lefkow (Unabridged: 3hrs 43mins) Featuring poems from Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Samuel Taylor Coleridge & many more. The ballad is one of the oldest poetic forms in English and are simply poems or songs that tell a story. Traditionally they are...
Tales of secrecy and intrigue long before the days of James Bond Read by Mark Rice-Oxley, Elliot Fitzpatrick & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 3hrs 34mins) Featuring stories by H G Wells, John Buchan, Ambrose Bierce, William Hope Hodgson & more. The world since earliest times has always had spies. Information is a valuable commodity...
Read by Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 5hrs 5mins) Edgar Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts on 19th January 1809. His father abandoned his family the following year and within a year his mother had died leaving him an orphan. He was taken in by the Allan family but never formally adopted although...
Love poems for married people. Read by Alex Jennings, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hrs 49mins) Featuring poems by Khalil Gibran, Sara Teasdale, Robert Burns, John Keats, Edward Lear, James Weldon Johnson, Lord Byron, Edna St Vincent Millay, Edmund Spenser & many more. The meeting, the courtship, the wedding and the honeymoon have all now been completed. Having got this...