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Read by Ghizela Rowe & Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 1hr 24mins) Charlotte Mary Mew was born on 15th November, 1869 in London to professional parents her father was responsible for the design of Hampstead Town Hall. Charlotte, one of seven children; three of whom died in early childhood, was educated at Lucy...
Read by Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 4mins) Featuring poems by Thomas Hardy, G.K. Chesterton, Letitia Elizabeth Landon & others. The church building has been pivotal to man’s spiritual and religious life for centuries. For many the interior of a church is literally their one to...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 5mins) Philip Edward Thomas was born on 3rd March, 1878 at 14 Lansdowne Gardens in Stockwell, Lambeth, which was then a part of Surrey. His family had a rich Welsh heritage. Thomas was educated at Battersea Grammar School before proceeding to...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ian Holm & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 2hrs 17mins) Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was born on August 5th, 1850 near Dieppe in France. Maupassant’s early life was badly torn when at age 11 (his younger brother Hervé was then five) his mother, Laure, a headstrong and independent-minded...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 10mins) Rupert Chawner Brooke was born at 5 Hillmorton Road, Rugby, Warwickshire on 3rd August, 1887, the third of four children. Brooke attended preparatory school near-by at Hillbrow, and then went on to Rugby School. In 1905, he became friends with...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 1mins) Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall was born on August 12th, 1880 to wealthy parents who separated while she was still an infant. Her parents thereafter paid little attention to her. Hall was educated privately, and then at King’s College London. Later...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 54mins) Arthur Morrison was born on November 1st, 1863, in Poplar, in the East End of London. From the age of 8, after the death of his father, he was brought up, along with two siblings, by his mother,...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 1hr 1min) Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in Campden Hill, Kensington on May 29th 1874. Originally after attending St Pauls School he went to Slade to learn the art of illustration. In 1896 he joined a small London publisher and began...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 1hr 36mins) Herbert George Wells was born on September 21st, 1866 in Bromley in Kent. He was the youngest of four siblings and his family affectionately knew him as ‘Bertie’. The first few years of his childhood were spent fairly quietly, and...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 38mins) Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born on the 1st April 1875 in Greenwich, London. Leaving school at 12 because of truancy, by the age of fifteen he had experience; selling newspapers, as a worker in a rubber factory, as...