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Read by Christopher Ragland, Laurel Lefkow & Liza Ross (Unabridged: 3hrs 9mins) Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born on 3rd July 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut, to an unaffectionate mother and a father who abandoned her and her older brother to a life of poverty. Inevitably her schooling was limited and...
Amy Levy was born in London, England in 1861, the second of seven in a fairly wealthy Anglo-Jewish family. The children read and participated in secular literary activities and became firmly integrated into Victorian life. Her education was at Brighton High School, Brighton, before studies at Newnham College, Cambridge; she...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Jake Urry & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 32mins) William Pett Ridge was born at Chartham, near Canterbury, Kent, on 22nd April 1859. His family’s resources were certainly limited. His father was a railway porter, and the young Pett Ridge, after schooling in Marden, Kent became a clerk...
Volume 1 - Most famous for his tales of crime and deduction, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle also had a passion for suspense, the supernatural and the macabre as demonstrated in this collection of gothic short stories. This set contains the stories: The Horror of the Heights, The Lord of Chateau...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Gideon Wagner & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 46mins) Featuring poems by William Blake, William Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Keats, John Clare & others. Over many centuries poets have drawn inspiration and solace from the land that surrounds us. From mountain high to valley floor from sea cliffs...
(Unabridged: 1hr 4mins) Volume One features audio interviews with Gareth David-Lloyd (Torchwood), Deborah Watling (Doctor Who), and Phil Willmott (Jupiter Moon). Deborah Watling is best known for her role as Victoria in Doctor Who, alongside the second Doctor, Patrick Troughton. However many people aren’t aware of her extensive acting career...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 11mins) George Meredith, OM, was born in Portsmouth, England on February 12th, 1828. His mother died when he was five. As a fourteen year old teenager he was sent to a Moravian School in Neuwied, Germany, staying there for...
Starring Henry Hull Originally Written by Herman Melville (Unabridged: 50mins) Moby Dick is a powerful classic story of man's obsession and revengeful nature written by Herman Melville. Captain Ahab, stomps around his ship on a peg leg that was caused by a huge whale called Moby Dick. Ahab is so...
Read by Tom McLean (Unabridged: 1hr 13mins) Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was born on 1st April 1809 to a father, descended from Ukrainian Cossacks and a mother with a military background in the Ukrainian town of Sorochyntsi, then part of the Russian Empire and rich in Cossack traditions and folklore. His...
Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were...