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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’...
Read by Eve Karpf, Janet Fullerlove & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 8hrs 40mins) Featuring stories by Katharine Tynan, Edith Wharton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gabriela Cunninghame Graham, Amy Levy & 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...
Read by Tim Piggot-Smith (Abridged: 2hrs 53mins) Set in the wild forests between the British and French colonies in the mid-18th-century wars, The Last of the Mohicans brims with action. Hawk-eye, first of the tough but honourable heroes of the frontier, leads a mixed band on a perilous journey. In the...
Read by Mark Rice-Oxley (Unabridged: 2hrs 19mins) Kenneth Grahame was born on 8th March 1859 in Edinburgh. At age 5 his mother succumbed to puerperal fever. His father, who had a drinking problem, now sent his 4 children to live with their grandmother at her large house in Cookham, Berkshire....
Read by Laurel Leftkow (Unabridged: 1hr 3mins) Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on 24th September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota into an upper-middle class family. Whilst his mother was pregnant with him, his two young sisters tragically died. Fitzgerald once said this was when his destiny as a writer was...
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, 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 Hannah Gordon (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) The year in 1801. In this section, all the principal characters are introduced. Mr Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, arrives at Wuthering Height to meet his landlord, Heathcliff. The next day, he encounters Hareton, the orphaned son of Hindley Earnshaw, and...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Jake Urry & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 2hrs 33mins) Featuring poems by Sara Teasdale, Edith Wharton, Amy Lowell, A.E. Housman, Thomas Hardy, D.H. Lawrence, John Galsworthy, G.K. Chesterton & more. War may be rationalized as ‘diplomacy by other means’ but the reality is that when tribes, Nations and...
Read by Richard Mitchley, William Dufris & Daniela Nardini (Unabridged: 1hr 48mins) Featuring poems by John Donne, Ben Jonson, Anne Bronte, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sara Teasdale & others. Through the centuries in the solace of a church we hear music. These soaring vaulted often beautiful pieces of architecture...