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Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 35mins) Featuring poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Burns, Sara Teasdale, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe & others. Love whether fleeting or of the ages, expressed with a look, a touch, or a thought is wanted by us all. Across genders and generations...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 5mins) Philip Edward Thomas was born on 3rd March, 1878 at 14 Lansdowne Gardens in Stockwell, Lambeth, which was then a part of Surrey. His family had a rich Welsh heritage. Thomas was educated at Battersea Grammar School before proceeding to...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 8mins) One of the greatest of English poets, Edmund Spenser was born in East Smithfield, London, in 1552 and went to school at Merchant Taylors' School and later at Pembroke College, Cambridge. <p>In 1579, he published The Shepheardes Calender,...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 5mins) Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. This series looks at individual...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 12mins) Adelaide Anne Procter was born on 30th October, 1825 at 25 Bedford Square in the Bloomsbury district of London. Her literary career began whilst still a teenager. Many of her poems were published by the great Charles Dickens...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 16mins) Alfred Tennyson was born on August 6th, 1809, in Somersby, Lincolnshire, the fourth of twelve children. Most of Tennyson's early education was under the direction of his father, although he did spend four unhappy years at a nearby...
Read by Sean Barrett (Unabridged: 59mins) When we think of Oscar Wilde we think of his wonderful wit and of course his plays and short stories. We rarely think of his poetry. We should. His work brings new insights into both his view of the world and how we...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) Andrew Marvell was born in Winestead-in-Holderness, in the East Riding of Yorkshire on March 31st, 1621. He was educated at Hull Grammar School and at the age of 13, he attended Trinity College, Cambridge and eventually received his BA...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 53mins) Featuring stories by Edith Nesbit, Rudyard Kipling & Anatol France The problem with the dark is you don’t really know what’s lurking in there. Something hiding? Something menacing? Or just an inky dome for the stars to twinkle on? Writers rarely let us...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 43mins) Featuring stories by Edgar Wallace, Katherine Mansfield & others. The short stories written during and about World War I are often over shadowed by the excellent verse of the War Poets. Yet the short story is perhaps their...