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Read by David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 56mins) Occasionally an author appears who, in a short career, emblazons a legacy so bright and so distinct, as well as popular that it is difficult to believe it is the output of only one man. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was such a talent. Stevenson...
Read by Eric Meyers (Unabridged: 47mins) Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on 24th September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota into an upper-middle class family. Whilst his mother was pregnant with him, his two young sisters tragically died. Fitzgerald once said this was when his destiny as a writer was ordained....
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 task....
Gogols story of an aging couple who must confont the harsh lessons of mortality. Read by Eliott Fitzpatrick (Unabridged: 1hr 3mins) Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was born on 1st April 1809 to a father, descended from Ukrainian Cossacks and a mother with a military background in the Ukrainian town of Sorochyntsi,...
Read by Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 1hr 4mins) Richard Edward Connell Jr was born on the 17th October 1893, in Poughkeepsie, New York. He began his writing career as a journalist for The Poughkeepsie Journal as well as attending Georgetown College for a year and then Harvard University. At Harvard, Connell edited...
Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were...
Tormented by the spirit of her dead husband - Virginia Preston seeks help from a young medium Simon Elliot. But as questions commence and the investigation begins; Simon uncovers the real truth behind the events leading up to the murder of her younger lover and the execution of her husband,...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Eric Meyers & Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 7hrs 49mins) Featuring stories by MR James, EF Benson, John William Polidori, Jan Neruda & others. For almost everyone the idea of having our blood, our life-force, sucked out of us while we sleep is both disturbing and primordially real....
(Unabridged: 2hrs 30mins) Performed by The Marlowe Society One of Shakespeare's most popular plays is here performed by The Marlowe Society with Anthony Jacobs, Corin Redgrave, Paul Scofield and many other very fine actors. The story itself follows on from that of Shakespeare's Richard II (also available in this series)...
Read by Bill Wallis (Unabridged: 2hrs 45mins) This wonderful creation by GK Chesterton is a familiar favourite to many as a TV series in the 70s with Kenneth More. Chesterton’s other works include ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much. These four stories test Father Brown in many ways creating headaches...