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Read by Tracey Childs (Unabridged: 2hrs 45mins) Laura and her father live a quiet life in their remote castle in the dense forests Styria. It is a solitary existence for young Laura, who has no companionship except for her governess and the occasional visits of neighbouring gentry. Into this lonely life comes...
Read by James Taylor & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 4mins) The British, it is often said, have a stiff upper lip and a dry sense of humour. Its true, we usually do and in the case of this perfect compendium of short stories we absolutely do. Listen to our Scottish raconteur...
Read by Jake Urry & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 27mins) Henry Woodd Nevinson was born on October 11th, 1856. Nevinson was schooled at Shrewsbury School and at Christ Church, Oxford. John Ruskin influenced his time at Oxford. Fascinated by German Culture he spent some time at Jena before publishing, in...
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 (Unabridged: 1hr 44mins) 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...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Mark Rice-Oxley & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 51mins) Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on 4th July 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, a town synonymous with the earlier Salem Witch Trials. It was instrumental in Hawthorne’s later use of American Gothic and dark romanticism in his writing. He was a mere four...
Read by Gideon Wagner (Abridged: 16mins) MACBETH. This tragedy of blood, deceit and betrayal is one of the most famous of Shakespeare’s works and regularly performed in theatres around the world. This performance by a distinguished cast that includes Anthony Quayle, Ian Holm, Alec McCowen and Stanley Holloway ensures that...
Read by Geoff McGivern, David Shaw-Parker & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 6hrs 25mins) Featuring stories by Arnold Bennett, MR James, Saki, DH Lawrence, Virginia Woolf & others. Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 52mins) David Herbert Lawrence was born on the 11th September 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, a coal mining town where the reality of a harsh life was only useful as experiences for future literary works. He was educated at Beauvale Board School and became the first local...
Part 4 For many Christians the New Testament forms the basis of our more modern view of Christianity. But the Old Testament has much to offer both in which of its parts are accepted by which branch of the Church but, more obviously, many of the stories themselves. Whether you...