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Part 2 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...
Read by Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 1hr 30mins) Robert William Chambers was born on 26th May 1865 in Brooklyn. Chambers was educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and then the Art Students' League. From there he studied in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts, and at Académie Julian, from 1886 to...
Read by Kelly Burke (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was born on 22nd April 1873 in Richmond, Virginia. She published her first novel ‘The Descendant’ anonymously in 1897 at age 24. As a ‘Southern’ writer much of her work integrates themes of class and gender struggles, many...
Read by Claire Bloom (Abridged 1hr) This legendary and tragic tale of two lovers and their death has seen numerous variations over many centuries, and some say influenced the story of Lancelot and Guinevere. Historians suggest that it originally comes from the 12th century, when wandering minstrels and bards would...
Read by Mark Rice-Oxley (Unabridged: 1hr 53mins) Elizabeth Stevenson was born in Chelsea in London on 29th September 1810. Both parents embedded their strong Unitarian beliefs into Elizabeth who rebelliously was often reluctant to display these religious convictions. The early death of Elizabeth’s mother saw her sent away to be...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 30mins) Henry James was born 15th April 1843 in New York City. His youth was spent travelling with his family receiving what was an "extraordinarily haphazard and promiscuous" education as they journeyed through London, Paris, Geneva, Boulogne-sur-Mer and Newport, Rhode Island, according to the...
(Unabridged: 1hr 5mins) Saki was the pen-name of Hector Hugh Munro. One of the wittiest of all short-story writers, he was born in 1870 in Burma where his father, a Scots army officer, was stationed. He was one when the family returned to England to live in North Devon. When his...
Read by Elliot Fitzpatrick (Unabridged: 47mins) It is a delicious literary irony that Mary E Penn, a writer of ghost, crime and mystery short stories during the Victorian era, is a complete enigma. Al that remain of her life are the 29 or so stories that were published or attributed...
Read by Darrell Joe (Unabridged: 1hr 12mins) Uriah Derick D’Arcy seems to all intents to be a literary pseudonym. Why no-one would want to take ownership of this story from its first publication in 1819 has been the subject of several conjectures. The only settled agreement is that it was written by...
Read by David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 49mins) In this age of instant access to information it would be thought that anyone’s past could be revealed. Alas for the Victorian author Arthur Moore, details are almost non-existent. Born on 14th January 1866 the only details that can be confirmed are that he...