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Read by Sir Christopher Lee (Abridged: 2hrs 22mins) From the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Quasimodo, the hunchback, looks down on the turmoil of Paris with a bitter eye. He is an outsider, tormented and derided because he is deformed and as ugly as a gargoyle. But love for the beautiful...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Julie Peasgood (Unabridged: 3hrs 2mins) This collection of short stories contains several gothic tales to bear macabre and chilling witness to writers as diverse as Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Shelley, HP Lovecraft and AM Burrage. These tales are designed to unsettle you, just...
Read by Liza Ross, Janet Maw & Laurel Lefkow (Unabridged: 7hrs 15mins) Featuring stories by Mary Shelley, George Eliot, Kate Chopin, Amelia Edwards & more. This century is crammed full of talents that showcase an enviable array of stories and genres. Across a hundred years the short story develops, becomes...
Read by Laurel Lefkow, Nigel Planer & Stephen Hogan (Unabridged: 1hr 8mins) Featuring poems by WB Yeats, John Keats, HP Lovecraft, Charles Baudelaire, William Wordsworth & others. The cat. Independent when it wants and making us dependent on its whims when it deems. Cats are first thought of as being...
Read by Jan Francis, Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Nigel Planer & Nigel Davenport (Unabridged: 55mins) Featuring poems by Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, Thomas Hood & others. The English language has grown into the Worlds pre-dominant spoken language. It’s estimated there are over one million words with which to...
Read by Jan Francis, Glyn Huston & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 5mins) Featuring poems by AE Housman, John Keats, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Cowper & others. Westminster Abbey has seen much during its long, rich history; the coronations of Kings and Queens, the burials of Prime...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 47mins) Featuring poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell & more. For much of history women have been seen rather than heard. Their thoughts, their views have lain too long in...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 51mins) 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...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Jake Urry & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 31mins) Featuring poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, Rudyard Kipling, William Blake, William Wordsworth & others. The United States has July 4th, Ireland St Patrick’s Day and France Bastille Day. Most Nations celebrate a particular day as ‘theirs’....
Warwickshire has seen its fair share of murder down the centuries. This latest collection explores notorious crimes from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, using contemporary documents; trial transcripts and newspaper accounts to examine cases that gripped both the county and the nation. Warwickshire Murders is a powerful and fascinating...