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(Unabridged: 57mins) Many nations have produced outstanding poets who they would gladly have represent their Culture. But can any Nation say they have an equivalent of Robert Burns...The Ploughman Poet, The Bard Of Scotland? This one poet is indelibly linked and intertwined with the culture and people of Scotland. His...
Read by Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 56mins) In the small village of Haworth in Yorkshire the Bronte family created novels and poems that are still admired to this day around the world. The middle of the three Bronte sisters, Emily Jane was born on 30th July 1818. The author of ‘Wuthering Heights’...
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...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 13mins) Featuring poems by Matthew Arnold, Lewis Carroll, GK Chesterton, Elizabeth Barrett Browning & others. Victorian Poetry – Volume 1 - An Introduction. Victoria’s reign was long and presided over the restless expansion of the British Empire and reams of creative...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 43mins) Featuring poems by Amy Levy, WB Yeats, Walt Whitman, Robert Louis Stevenson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charlotte Smith & others. Amidst all our dreams and ambitions from cradle to grave is the wanderlust of travel. To see the world, to experience different...
(Unabridged: 1hr 16mins) These three stories are amongst the finest by Katherine Mansfield, a woman highly regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. In these bittersweet tales she gently reveals the emotions and feelings within the lives of apparently unexceptional people. Her stories offer a sensitive insight...
(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 Jo Wyatt (Unabridged: 49mins) In the small village of Haworth in Yorkshire the Bronte family created novels and poems that are still admired to this day around the world. The youngest of the three Bronte sisters, Anne, was born on 17th January 1820. The author of ‘Agnes Grey’...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 7mins) Shelley is one of the most revered figures in the English poetical landscape. Born on the 4th August 1792 he has, over the years, become rightly regarded as a major Romantic poet. Yet during his own lifetime little of his work was...
(Unabridged: 1hr 34mins) The play Don Juan in Hell originated as Act 3, Scene 2, of Man and Superman and is a spirited debate between Heaven and Hell. It was written by Irish playwright and a master of social commentary George Bernard Shaw (1856 1950), who is probably most famous...