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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...
Read by Liza Ross, Laurel Lefkow & Janet Maw (Unabridged: 7hrs 37mins) Featuring stories by Edith Wharton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Nesbit, Kate Chopin & more. Once again on the American side of the Atlantic talent pours forth from the pens of these literary women. Even to choose a mere ten seems to be a...
Written by Tony Davis Read by William Franklin (Abridged: 2hrs 29mins) Towards the end of the Second World War and Italy’s release from Fascism and Mussolini three young British POW’s are liberated. Their mission now is to join up with their comrades. The only hurdle is the 700 miles of...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 3hrs 29mins) Featuring poems by Sara Teasdale, G.K. Chesterton, Siegfried Sassoon, Amy Lowell, Thomas Hardy, Ford Madox Ford & others. In the War a great volume of poetry was written, produced and published in books, periodicals, newspapers or letters back to home. ...
Read by Eve Karpf, Janet Fullerlove & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 7hrs 41mins) Featuring stories by Gertrude Atherton, Ella D'Arcy, Edith Nesbit, Mary E Wilkins Freeman & 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 to start our...
Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were...
Read by David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 1hr 26mins) 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 education and clothing. He...
Read by David-Shaw Parker (Unabridged: 1hr 25mins) Mary Diana Dods was born at some point in 1790. Much of the details of her life are unknown. Accounts propose that she was one of the illegitimate daughters of George Douglas, the sixteenth Earl of Morton and that she and her older...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 15mins) Featuring poems by Lord Byron, George Eliot, WB Yeats & others. Love. What is love? The question is asked by each of us but the answer remains elusive. Dictionaries summon up many words but none fulfill. Love itself is often ethereal,...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 15mins) Featuring poems by William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Christopher Marlowe & others. Love. What is love? The question is asked by each of us but the answer remains elusive. Dictionaries summon up many words but none fulfill. Love itself is often ethereal, felt but...