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Read by Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 3mins) Hector Hugh Munro, more familiarly known by his pen-name ‘Saki’ was born in what was then Akyab in British Burma on 18th December 1870. His father was an Inspector General for the Indian Imperial Police, and his mother...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe & Laurel Lefkow (Unabridged: 1hr 7mins) Featuring poems from Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, William Wordsworth & many more. The tenth month of the Gregorian calendar in now upon us and the land prepares to give us more of its colorful coverings as a...
Part 3 For many Christians the New Testament forms the basis of our more modern view of Christianity. But the Old Testament has much to offer both in which of its parts are accepted by which branch of the Church but, more obviously, many of the stories themselves. Whether you...
(Unabridged: 54mins) William Blake is now considered one of the giants of poetry. During his life, and for many years after, he was thought of as mad. His wide ranging skills not only encompassed poetry but bestrode the visual arts too, with paintings and printmaking. Unfortunately Blake could never fit...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 15mins) Featuring poems by Louisa May Alcott, John Keats, Hafiz, Victor Hugo & others. ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 48mins) Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is regarded by many readers and literary critics to be THE major English novelist of the Victorian Age. He is remembered today as the author of a series of weighty novels which have been translated into...
Read by Roger Blake (Abridged: 2hr 25mins) When seven year old Alice cannot resist following an unusual rabbit down a hole, she enters the dream like world of Wonderland. Here, everything is extraordinary – rabbits talk, cats materalise from nowhere, babies turn into pigs, and even Alice herself changes at times....
(Unabridged: 2hrs 7mins) Born in 1797, her Mother died when she was only 11 days old. Mary was then raised by her Father, who remarried when she was four, with a liberal but informal upbringing. At 17 she began the relationship with the poet Percy Byshe Shelley which was the...
Read by Libby Brunton & Tania Rodrigues (Unabridged: 57mins) Aphra Behn was a prolific and well-established poet and playwright but facts about her life remain scant and difficult to confirm. What can safely be said is that Aphra Behn is regarded as a key English playwright and a major figure in...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 18mins) Featuring poems by Amy Levy, Kabir, Walt Whitman, Willa Cather & others. ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby...