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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...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 17mins) Featuring poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Smith & 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 Roger Blake (Abridged: 2hr 25mins) When seven year old Alice cannot resist following an unusual rabbit down a hole, she enters the dream like world of Wonderland. Here, everything is extraordinary – rabbits talk, cats materalise from nowhere, babies turn into pigs, and even Alice herself changes at times....
Read by Eve Karpf, Janet Fullerlove & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 7hrs 50mins) Featuring stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Mary Anne Hoare, George Eliot & others. A wise man once said ‘The safest place for a child is in the arms of his mother’s voice’. This is a perfect place...
(Unabridged: 1hr 11mins) Written by Rudyard Kipling, the popular British Victorian writer, these origin stories are fantasised tales written with a delightful sense of whimsy that charms adults and children alike. These excellent readings by Ghizela Rowe & Tim Graham makes it abundantly clear why they have become such special...
(Unabridged: 1hr 12mins) Featuring poems by Elizabeth Barratt Browning, Emily Jane Bronte, Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, Eliza Cook, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson & others. The gentler sex or the deadlier of the species. Between these two definitions of the female gender lies a collection of some of the most beautiful verse ever...
Read by Geoff McGivern, David Shaw-Parker & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 6hrs 25mins) Featuring stories by Arnold Bennett, MR James, Saki, DH Lawrence, Virginia Woolf & others. Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into...