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Read by David Shaw-Parker, Mark Rice-Oxley & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 5mins) Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 22nd May 1859. His childhood was blighted by his father’s heavy drinking which for some years broke up the family. Fortunately, wealthy uncles were willing to support them by paying for...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 4mins) James Elroy Flecker was born on 5th November 1884, in Lewisham, London. Flecker does not seem to have enjoyed academic study and achieved only a Third-Class Honours in Greats in 1906. This did not set him up for a...
(Unabridged: 43mins) November – The eleventh month of the year in the Gregorian calendar; the land becomes bleaker, harsher but no less beautiful for that. For our poets, including Hood, Arnold, Melville, Alford and Hardy there is much to write and comment on. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 2hrs 33mins) Featuring stories by Virginia Woolf, Edgar Wallace, Ford Madox Ford & others. The short stories written during and about World War I are often over shadowed by the excellent verse of the War Poets. Yet the short story...
Read by Eve Karpf & Liza Ross (Unabridged: 1hr) The art of writing a short story can be barely noticed by a reader such is the quality with which they are usually written. It is a difficult trade, an unforgiving discipline but for those who master it the rewards are...
Read by Eve Karpf, Kelly O'Doherty & Stephen Hogan (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) Francis Edward Ledwidge was born on 19th August, 1887 in the small village of Janeville in Slane, County Meath in Ireland to parents that believed strongly in education. At the age of 5 his father died and the entire family, already...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 10mins) Ivor Bertie Gurney was born in Gloucester on 28th August 1890. A chorister at Gloucester cathedral Ivor began to compose music at 14 before winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in 1911. Noted for his...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 52mins) Strictly speaking The Lake Poets were not a movement or school of poetry they were only so named as such by The Edinburgh Review so that they could be disparaged. It was a spectacular backfire! The three main...
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 Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 21mins) Featuring poems by Kabir, John Clare H P Lovecraft, 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...