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Read by Robert Ross (Abridged: 1hr) It has been said that no translation, however studied and skilful, can do justice to the genius of Chaucer’s writing.
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 10mins) William Wymark Jacobs was born on 8th September 1863 in Wapping, East London. He was educated at a private school and then Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution, now part of the University of London. In 1879, Jacobs began work...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 1min) Kabir, meaning Great and one of the 99 names of God in Arabic, was a mystic and poet, born around 1440 in Varanasi to poor Muslim parents. Another account claims he was the child of a Brahmin widow. He himself said...
Read by Danny Swopes, Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 3mins) James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida on June 17th 1871. His mother, Helen, a musician and a public school teacher initially home-schooled him giving him a love of both English literature and European music. At 16 his education moved...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Sean Barrett & David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 1hr 17mins)e Featuring poems by William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson & Alfred Austin. The office of Poet Laureate goes back many centuries – informally to the time of Geoffrey Chaucer in 1389 and followed thereafter by a number of ‘volunteer laureates’....
(Unabridged: 1hr 9mins) The gentler sex or the deadlier of the species. Between these two definitions of the female gender lies a collection of some of the most beautiful verse ever written. For much of history women have been seen rather than heard. In this volume poets of great depth and...
Read by Eve Karpf & Liza Ross (Unabridged 1hr 14mins) The art of writing a short story can be barely noticed by a reader such is the quality with which they are usually written. It is a difficult trade, an unforgiving discipline but for those who master it the rewards...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Tim Graham (Unabridged: 1hr 18mins) Featuring poems by John Donne, Ben Jonson, Christina Rossetti, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Alfred Lord Tennyson & others. Christmas, they say, comes but once a year. In these days it seems to also last for much of...
"History is an account not of what actually happened, but of what people think happened" - Queen Victoria. Marie Tussaud was a remarkable woman. She escaped the guillotine and survived the horrors of the French revolution. She toured the towns of Britain for thirty three hard years with her travelling...
(Unabridged: 1hr 16mins) These three stories are amongst the finest by Katherine Mansfield, a woman highly regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. In these bittersweet tales she gently reveals the emotions and feelings within the lives of apparently unexceptional people. Her stories offer a sensitive insight...