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When Kennedy spoke of landing a man on the moon it seemed an impossible task “We do this not because it is easy but because it is hard”. Man was spacebound and Kennedy’s goal was to achieve this on many levels; to show the Soviet Union that America was the...
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...
Love poems for married people. Read by Alex Jennings, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hrs 49mins) Featuring poems by Khalil Gibran, Sara Teasdale, Robert Burns, John Keats, Edward Lear, James Weldon Johnson, Lord Byron, Edna St Vincent Millay, Edmund Spenser & many more. The meeting, the courtship, the wedding and the honeymoon have all now been completed. Having got this...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Tim Graham (Unabridged: 1hr 34mins) Whilst this given name and the poets included can seem at first glance broad and unmanageable the name both historically and artistically is a near perfect fit. Those poets that pledged support to Charles I, a connoisseur and patron...
(Unabridged: 57mins) Many nations have produced outstanding poets who they would gladly have represent their Culture. But can any Nation say they have an equivalent of Robert Burns...The Ploughman Poet, The Bard Of Scotland? This one poet is indelibly linked and intertwined with the culture and people of Scotland. His...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 7mins) Shelley is one of the most revered figures in the English poetical landscape. Born on the 4th August 1792 he has, over the years, become rightly regarded as a major Romantic poet. Yet during his own lifetime little of his work was...
Read by Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 55mins) Sara Trevor Teasdale was born on 8th August, 1884 in St Louis, Missouri. A child of poor health she was 14 years old when she was well enough to begin school. Her first poetry publication was in 1907 with her second book in 1911....
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 13mins) Featuring poems by Matthew Arnold, Lewis Carroll, GK Chesterton, Elizabeth Barrett Browning & others. Victorian Poetry – Volume 1 - An Introduction. Victoria’s reign was long and presided over the restless expansion of the British Empire and reams of creative...
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 Richard Mitchley & Robbie McNab (Abridged: 3hrs 23mins) Rudyard Kipling that great Victorian, that great writer of Empire, that great man; from ‘The Jungle Book’ to ‘The Man Who Would Be King’ to a great and voluminous poet with works of the calibre of ‘If’ and ‘On The Road...