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Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 5mins) Featuring poems by Aphra Behn, Anne Bradstreet, Anne Kilgrew, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Kingsmill Finch & more. For much of history women have been seen rather than heard. Their thoughts, their views have lain too long in the shadows of our...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 15mins) Featuring poems by John Donne, Ben Jonson, DH Lawrence & others. Love. What is love? The question is asked by each of us but the answer remains elusive. Dictionaries summon up many words but none fulfill. Love itself is often ethereal, felt but...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 11mins) Featuring poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Makepeace Thackeray, Oscar Wilde, WB Yeats & others. Victorian Poetry – Volume 3 - An Introduction. Victoria’s reign was long and presided over the restless expansion of the British Empire...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 2hrs 57mins) Mary Elizabeth Braddon was born in London on the 4th October 1835. At age 5 her parents separated but her ambition to succeed was not daunted. After being privately educated she took to acting, and the minor roles...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 49mins) Charles Edward Montague was born in London on New Year’s Day, 1867 and educated at the City of London School and then Balliol College, Oxford. At university, Montague, a keen writer, wrote several literary reviews for the Manchester Guardian and...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 1hr 57mins) Featuring poems by Emily Dickinson, Sappho, Amy Lowell, Katherine Mansfield, Aphra Behn & more. In the last few decades secular society has become more tolerant of homosexuality. Now, in the West, we live in a time when to be gay...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 15mins) Featuring poems by Lord Byron, George Eliot, WB Yeats & others. Love. What is love? The question is asked by each of us but the answer remains elusive. Dictionaries summon up many words but none fulfill. Love itself is often ethereal,...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 28mins) Featuring poems by James Joyce, John Keats, John Ruskin, Sara Teasdale & others. ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 20mins) Featuring poems by Sara Teasdale, Ben Jonson, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge & others. ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitcheley (Unabridged: 1hr 4mins) Featuring poems by William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Robert Browning, John Clare, Katherine Mansfield & others. Spring by tradition begins the renewal both of ourselves and of nature. The very sound of the word suggests impetus and movement...