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Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 47mins) Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on 29th January 1860 in Taganrog, on the south coast of Russia. His family life was difficult; his father was strict and over-bearing but his mother was a passionate story-teller, a subject Chekhov warmed to. As he later said;...
Read by Jake Urry & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 47mins) Featuring stories by Henry W. Nevison, Edwin Pugh, Arthur Morrison & others. The Cockney Novelists flourished towards the end of the nineteenth century and spilled over into the next. They included Arthur Morrison, Edwin Pugh, William Pett Ridge and Clarence...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 3hrs 6mins) John Galsworthy was born in Kingston Upon Thames in Surrey, on August 14th 1867. The family was wealthy and well established. John was schooled at Harrow and New College, Oxford before training as a barrister. But law was not for...
Read by Garard Green, Jake Urry & David Shaw Parker (Unabridged: 3hrs 13mins) Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on the 16th October 1854 in Dublin, Ireland. The son of Dublin intellectuals Oscar proved himself an outstanding classicist at Trinity College and then at Oxford. Wilde then moved...
Read by Tim Graham & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 9mins) Featuring poems by William Blake, Eliza Cook, Anne Taylor, Walt Whitman, DH Lawrence, Emily Bronte, Robert Burns & others. This volume of poetry brings together poems throughout history with very special women. The relationship with our Mother is one of...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 51mins) Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look...
(Unabridged: 44mins) June - The sixth month of the year in our Gregorian calendar and the official beginning of Summer. The days stretch to their longest and many subjects and thoughts fill the minds of our Poets such as Dryden, Levy, Raleigh, Blunt and Dickenson as they describe the warming days....
Read by Tim Graham & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 48mins) Featuring poems by William Shakespeare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jean Graham, Henry Williams Baker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lucretia Maria Davidson & others. This volume of poetry brings together poems throughout history with very special women. The relationship with our Mother is one of...
Read by Jan Francis, Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Nigel Planer & Nigel Davenport (Unabridged: 55mins) Featuring poems by Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, Thomas Hood & others. The English language has grown into the Worlds pre-dominant spoken language. It’s estimated there are over one million words with which to...
Read by William Dufris, Richard Mitchley, William Hootkins & Lorelei King (Unabridged: 1hr 16mins) Featuring poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe & others. Poetry can sometimes be elusive, the real meaning layered beneath another. In this volume American Poets...