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(Unabridged: 1hr 6mins) Written by Rudyard Kipling, the popular British Victorian writer, these origin stories are fantasised tales written with a delightful sense of whimsy that charms adults and children alike. These excellent readings by Ghizela Rowe & Tim Graham makes it abundantly clear why they have become such special...
Read by Libby Brunton, Ghizela Rowe & Laurel Lefkow (Unabridged: 1hr 4mins) Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson was born on 22nd September 1847 in Barnes, London. Her family travelled widely meaning that Alice’s early years were spent around England, Switzerland, and France before finally settling in Italy. Her dedicated interest in religion...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 58mins) Featuring poems by John Keats, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Hardy, William Wordsworth & more. For many of us Autumn, or as the Americans would say; Fall is the season of mixed emotions. Summer’s long days are replaced by...
Read by Stephen Hogan, Kelly O'Doherty & David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 54mins) James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on the 2nd February 1882 in Dublin into a middle-class family, and the eldest of ten surviving siblings Admired as a brilliant student he briefly attended the Christian Brothers-run O'Connell School before excelling...
Read by Christopher Lee (Abridged: 2hrs 58mins) The story of Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss scientist, starts and ends in the frozen wastes of the Arctic. There, he tells Robert Walton, his English rescuer, about his obsessive quest to create life and its disastrous results. He has attempted to make a superhuman...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 16mins) Featuring poems by William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, William Morris, Alfred Lord Tennyson & others. Summer beckons each and every one of us to its warm embrace. For many of us it is the season we can most enjoy;...
Read by Geraldine James (Abridged: 2hrs 23mins) Although set in the heart of rural England, in a place still untouched by industrial development or social upheaval, Silas Marner is no idyllic country tale. Eliot depicts village life good and bad: Silas’s suspicious neighbours are far from perfect and both the...
Read by David Rintoul (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) The story of Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss scientist, starts and ends in the frozen wastes of the Arctic. There, he tells Robert Walton, his English rescuer, about his obsessive quest to create life and its disastrous results. He has attempted to make a...
Read by William Roberts (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) When The Great Gatsby was published, commercially it was a failure but critically it was a success. It is still the most admired and well read of all Scott Fitzgerald’s novels and it is considered a handbook of the 'Jazz Age'. Scott Fitzgerald...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 35mins) Featuring poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Burns, Sara Teasdale, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe & others. Love whether fleeting or of the ages, expressed with a look, a touch, or a thought is wanted by us all. Across genders and generations...