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Read by Nigel Planer, Richard Mitchley & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 10mins) Featuring poems by William Blake, John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, John Clare & others. The Romantics – Volume 2. Romanticism was a new movement in philosophy and the arts that began in the late 18th century...
Read by James Taylor, Aidan Gillen, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley & Alex Jennings (Unabridged: 1hr 49mins) Featuring poems by GK Chesterton, Herman Melville, Christoper Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde & others. Novelists stake their claim as artists on works that encapsulate a whole world of characters and narrative...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 16mins) John Clare was born on 13th July, 1793 in Helpston, a few miles north of Peterborough. Schooled only until the age of 12 his early career was that of agricultural labourer, pot boy, gardener and lime burner. His...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Jake Urry & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 3mins) Featuring stories by Saki, D.H. Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling & others. The human race prides itself on being the most organised of animals. We manage the fate of all other species. All other animals bow to our control or...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 14mins) Herman Cyril McNeile, MC was born on September 28th, 1888 in Bodmin, Cornwall. His education was rounded off with military training and from there he was given a posting to Aldershot Garrison then Canterbury and then Malta. With the beginning...
Read by Stella Gonet, David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe, Tim Graham & Alex Jennings (Unabridged: 1hr) Featuring poems by William Shakespeare, John Keats, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron & others. "If music be the food of love, play on" was one of Shakespeare's finest lines. If music is food, then...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 55mins) Featuring poems by William Wordsworth, William Blake, Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Rudyard Kipling & others. London, A City In Words - Every country has its capital, its centre for governance and culture. Only a few capitals can lay...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Alex Jennings & David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 1hr 7mins) Featuring poems by Sir Walter Raleigh, George Herbert, Michael Drayton, Thomas Carew, Katherine Phillips, Edmund Spenser & others. For our Renaissance Poets we start with the coming to the throne of Henry 8th in 1519. From then until...
Read by Patricia Rodriguez & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 2hrs 25mins) Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in 1830 in Amherst Massachusetts. Rightly regarded as a major American poet, her life was sheltered, introverted, and reclusive. Despite writing over 1800 poems, only a dozen or so were published during her lifetime. Her...
(Unabridged: 46mins) Tagore was a true Renaissance man, distinguishing himself as a gifted philosopher, social and political reformer as well as a popular author in all literary genres. His most famous poem, extracts of which are recorded here, is Gitanjali which earned him the distinction of the first Asian writer...