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(Unabridged: 44mins) June - The sixth month of the year in our Gregorian calendar and the official beginning of Summer. The days stretch to their longest and many subjects and thoughts fill the minds of our Poets such as Dryden, Levy, Raleigh, Blunt and Dickenson as they describe the warming days....
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 Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) Robert Seymour Bridges, OM was born on 23rd October 1844 at Walmer in Kent where he spent his early childhood in a house overlooking the anchoring ground of the British fleet. His father died aged only 47 in...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 5mins) Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī is commonly known to us as Hafiz, the Persian poet who was born in Shiraz, Iran in either 1315 or 1317. The facts of much of his early life are unknown to us but it...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & David Shaw-Parker (UnabridgedL: 4hrs 46mins) Featuring stories by Ada Radford, Netta Syrett & others. During the Victorian era the publishing of magazines and periodicals accelerated at a phenomenal rate. This really was mass market publishing to a hungry audience eager for literary sustenance. Many of...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 45mins) Featuring stories by Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Elizabeth Gaskell & others. At some point in our lives we believe that creak, that low moan, that whisper is something unnatural, beyond our comprehension. And in these stories our instincts are right. We...
Read by Gareth David-Lloyd & Staten Eliot (Unabridged: 2hrs 16mins) HP Lovecraft is a modern master of horror. This collection is mainly centered on Imprisoned With The Pharaohs. It’s a very detailed work taking place in Egypt. Rightly acknowledged as a classic it combines all the best elements of Lovecraft,...
(Unabridged: 1hr 6mins) 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: 39mins) April - The fourth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar heralds Spring in earnest and of course April Showers and perhaps other unsettled weather. For out poets including Owen, Stevenson, Van Dyke, Hardy and Shelley the month provides a rich source for them to muse upon. ...
Tales of secrecy and intrigue long before the days of James Bond Read by Mark Rice-Oxley, Elliot Fitzpatrick & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 3hrs 34mins) Featuring stories by H G Wells, John Buchan, Ambrose Bierce, William Hope Hodgson & more. The world since earliest times has always had spies. Information is a valuable commodity...