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Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 7hrs 4mins) Featuring stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, Margaret Oliphant, JM Barrie, John Buchan & 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 Ghizela Rowe, David Shaw-Parker & Mark Rice-Oxley (Unabridged: 1hr 9mins) Richard Thomas Gallienne was born in Liverpool on 20th January, 1866. His first job was in an accountant's office, but this was quickly abandoned to pursue his first love as a professional writer. His first work, My...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, David Shaw-Parker & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 58mins) Aleksander Głowacki who wrote under the nom de plume Boleslaw Prus was born on 20th August 1847 at Hrubieszów in the Kingdom of Poland, at that time, controlled by the Russian Empire. At three his mother died and then...
Read by Martin Jarvis (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) A story of love and broken dreams, Great Expectations is regarded by many as Dickens' finest achievement. He combines a gripping, melodramatic plot with a rich and memorable cast of characters, some comic, some tragic, some eccentric and some exemplary, like the generous-spirited...
Read by Peter Egan (Abridged: 2hrs 20mins) It is strange to consider that, although The Hound Of The Baskervilles is Conan Doyle’s most popular novel, his hero is absent for much of the time. Notice how he sets up an atmosphere of supernatural horror right from the start through Dr...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 43mins) Featuring poems by John Donne, George Herbert, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell & others. The Caroline era was dominated by the growing religious, political and social conflict between the King and his supporters; the Royalists and it's Puritan opposition;...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Eve Karpf & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 14mins) Featuring poems by Amy Levy, William Butler Yeats, Walt Whitman, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hafiz, John Keats, Alfred Lord Tennyson & others. The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar saunters into mid-summer. Temperatures rise still further. The landscape may...
Read by Garrick Hagon, Bill Wallis & Hubert Gregg (Unabridged: 3hrs 17mins) This collection of short stories contains several gothic tales to bear macabre and chilling witness to writers as diverse as Charles Dickens, HP Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe and Jerome K Jerome. These tales are designed to unsettle you,...
Written & Read by Mary Tamm (Unabridged: 3hrs 18mins) In the 1970s, she travelled the universe aboard the TARDIS… 30 years on, actress Mary Tamm now recounts the story of her own, earthbound, adventures. Born to Estonian parents in 1950s Bradford, her rise to fame took her from a Northern...
Read by Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 56mins) In the small village of Haworth in Yorkshire the Bronte family created novels and poems that are still admired to this day around the world. The middle of the three Bronte sisters, Emily Jane was born on 30th July 1818. The author of ‘Wuthering Heights’...