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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 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 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...
Read by Jake Urry & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 47mins) Featuring stories by Henry W. Nevison, Edwin Pugh, Arthur Morrison & others. The Cockney Novelists flourished towards the end of the nineteenth century and spilled over into the next. They included Arthur Morrison, Edwin Pugh, William Pett Ridge and Clarence...
Read by Geoff McGivern (Unabridged: 1hr 43mins) Montague Rhodes James, the greatest English writer of ghost stories, was born in 1862 at Goodnestone Parsonage in Kent, where his father was Curate, and spent most of his boyhood at Livermere, near Bury St Edmunds in East Anglia, where his father had...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 12mins) Featuring poems by William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Thomas Hardy, Percy Bysshe Shelley & more. When the wind blows and the rain lashes our emotions can become dulled and our thoughts depressed but sometimes these swirling conditions can excite...
Read by Richard Mitchley & George Irving (Unabridged: 4hrs 21mins) Featuring stories by Edith Nesbit, Wilkie Collins, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson & others. Our greatest fears are of the unknown. Usually we think those fears are in front of us…or behind us. But perhaps the human body itself holds the greatest...