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Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 8mins) Alfred Edward Housman was born on 26 March 1859 in a small village near Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, the eldest of seven children. His mother died when he was 12 and his father remarried. Despite a good formal education...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 34mins) Featuring stories by Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf & Richard Gallienne. At some point in our lives we believe that creak, that low moan, that whisper is something unnatural, beyond our comprehension. And in these stories our instincts are right. We are afraid. And...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 8mins) Wilfred Owen was born on 18th March 1893 at Plas Wilmot, near Oswestry in Shropshire, the eldest of four children Wilfred’s education was initially at the Birkenhead Institute and then later at Shrewsbury Technical school. His mothers strong Anglican views...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) Robert Southey was born on the 12th of August 1774 in Bristol. A poet of the Romantic school and one of the "Lake Poets". Although his fame has been eclipsed by that of his friends William Wordsworth and...
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 Richard Mitchley & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 49mins) Charles Edward Montague was born in London on New Year’s Day, 1867 and educated at the City of London School and then Balliol College, Oxford. At university, Montague, a keen writer, wrote several literary reviews for the Manchester Guardian and...
Read by Eve Karpf, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 18mins) Food. One of the overpowering needs that we all hunger for. Whether to use as basic fuel or sophisticated tasting, food and its providers, its servers, its guests and our authors are here to converse, deliberate as courses are...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 48mins) Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is regarded by many readers and literary critics to be THE major English novelist of the Victorian Age. He is remembered today as the author of a series of weighty novels which have been translated into...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Jake Urry & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) Israel Zangwill was born in London on 21st January 1864, to a family of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire. Zangwill was initially educated in Plymouth and Bristol. At age 9 he was enrolled in the Jews' Free School...
Read by David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 43mins) Gibran Khalil Gibran was born on 6th January 1883 in the village of Bsharri, Beirut Vilayet, then part of the Ottoman Empire His mother took him and his siblings to the United States in 1895 where he was enrolled into a Boston school...