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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 Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 59mins) Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow on 11th November, 1821 to distinguished multi-ethnic parents from a Lithuanian background. His childhood years were at the family home in hospital grounds which also contained an orphanage, an insane asylum and a cemetery for criminals. ...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 2hrs 32mins) John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875. After a brief career in the legal profession he began a twin career as writer and politician. He was a prodigious writer not just of fiction but of such acclaimed works as...
Read by Martin Jarvis (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) A story of love and broken dreams, Great Expectations is regarded by many as Dickens' finest achievement. He combines a gripping, melodramatic plot with a rich and memorable cast of characters, some comic, some tragic, some eccentric and some exemplary, like the generous-spirited...
Read by Eve Karpf, Janet Fullerlove & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 8hrs 40mins) Featuring stories by Katharine Tynan, Edith Wharton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gabriela Cunninghame Graham, Amy Levy & others. A wise man once said ‘The safest place for a child is in the arms of his mother’s voice’. This is a perfect place to start...
Read by David Rintoul (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Francis Osbaldistone, in disgrace with his father for refusing to join the family bank, travels north to his cousins' remote house in Northumberland. There, he finds himself caught up in a vicious plot to bankrupt his father which has startling consequences. At the...
(Unabridged: 2hrs 21mins) This collection brings together 5 of Lawrence's short stories from 1907-13 and range across all his major early styles and themes; portraying his distinctive vision or relations between men and woman as well as social and economic life and human nature in general. The stories here concentrate...
(Unabridged: 2hrs 15mins) Wilkie Collins was a prolific writer of short stories. Always original, his combination of cleverly constructed plots and believable characters has made him one of our most widely read authors. In 'The Dead Hand', a visitor to Doncaster in race week is forced by circumstances to spend...
Read by Shyama Perara, David Shaw-Parker & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 49mins) Featuring poems by Rumi, Kabir, Hafiz & others. Islam is one of the world’s great religions and over the centuries one of its strongest voices. For Peace. For Tolerance. For the realisation that we are all in this World...
(Unabridged: 1hr 3mins) The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel but it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many...