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Read by Christopher Lee (Abridged: 2hrs 58mins) The story of Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss scientist, starts and ends in the frozen wastes of the Arctic. There, he tells Robert Walton, his English rescuer, about his obsessive quest to create life and its disastrous results. He has attempted to make a superhuman...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 9mins) Featuring poems by John Keats, Walt Whitman, William Morris, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Van Dyke, Sara Teasdale, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Louis Stevenson. Nature assembles all its glories among the twelve months of the year and...
Read by Christopher Ragland & Laurel Lefkow (Unabridged: 1hr 57mins) John Griffith Chaney was born on January 12th, 1876 in San Francisco. His father, William Chaney, was living with Flora Wellman when she became pregnant. Chaney insisted she have an abortion. Flora's response was to turn a gun on herself. Although...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Nigel Planer & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 19mins) Featuring poems by Henry Alford, Laurence Binyon, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Hafiz & others. The eighth month of the Gregorian calendar brings summer to a close, at least on our calendars. Nature will continue with her wise and infinite...
Poetry and prose together from literary greats. Read by Libby Brunton, Shyama Perara & Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 1hr 31mins) Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. An author’s ideas...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, David Shaw-Parker & Mark Rice-Oxley (Unabridged: 2hrs 5mins) Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins was born on 9th February 1863 in Clapton, London. He was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, Marlborough College and Balliol College, Oxford. Hope trained as a lawyer and barrister and was called to...
(Unabridged: 56mins) Perhaps England’s greatest literary family. To find one brilliant novelist in a family is extremely rare. But two? Three? The Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily Jane and Anne together with their brother Patrick are famed throughout the World. But amongst their many talents was poetry. Of course being Bronte’s...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 50mins) Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that the English language has produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this volume we...
(Unabridged: 57mins) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in 1807 in Portland Maine (then part of Massachusetts) into a privileged background. Studious, he worked hard and grew to love languages as well as poetry from an early age. He travelled extensively in Europe for 3 years, immersing himself in various languages,...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr) Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at the world...