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Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) Michael Drayton was born in 1563 at Hartshill, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. The facts of his early life remain unknown. Drayton first published, in 1590, a volume of spiritual poems; The Harmony of the Church. Ironically the Archbishop...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 3mins) George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, but more commonly known as just Byron was a leading English poet in the Romantic Movement along with Keats and Shelley. Byron was born on January 22nd, 1788. He was a great...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 93 hours 12mins) These British Isles, moored across from mainland Europe, are more often seen as a world unto themselves. Restless and creative, they often warred amongst themselves until they began a global push to forge a World Empire of...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Nigel Planer & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 26mins) Featuring poems by Tagore, Lord Byron, Walt Whitman, Thomas Hardy, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Paul Laurence Dunbar & others. Our senses revel in the incomparable majesty of the work of Mother Nature. The structure of the landscape, the...
(Unabridged: 2hrs 48mins) Defoe is most well known for his classic novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders. Born around 1659 he was also a journalist, a pamphleteer, a businessman, a spy - and a writer of short stories. His life was long and colourful covering all manner of fields and...
Read by David Rintoul (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Francis Osbaldistone, in disgrace with his father for refusing to join the family bank, travels north to his cousins' remote house in Northumberland. There, he finds himself caught up in a vicious plot to bankrupt his father which has startling consequences. At the...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 48mins) The Elizabethan age had almost departed and the world had seen the rise of great European empires that continued to hunt with mischief between themselves as they traversed the globe in search of more spoils and territories. In...
(Unabridged: 3hrs 37mins) Born in 1857 in Poland, Joseph Conrad became a British citizen just before he turned 30. In the intervening years he lost both parents; becoming an orphan at 11 being thereafter raised by an uncle, who at 16 let the boy go to Marseille where he began...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 2hrs 45mins) Sometimes we just want the best. But that involves choices, judgements, decisions. And that all depends on our feelings, our mood at the time. Even more so with Poetry. Would we like a little more pathos, or love,...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 44mins) The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task....