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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...
When Kennedy spoke of landing a man on the moon it seemed an impossible task “We do this not because it is easy but because it is hard”. Man was spacebound and Kennedy’s goal was to achieve this on many levels; to show the Soviet Union that America was the...
Read by David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 54mins) Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on 29th January 1860 in Taganrog, on the south coast of Russia. His family life was difficult; his father was strict and over-bearing but his mother was a passionate story-teller, a subject Chekhov warmed to. As he later said;...
Read by David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 1hr 26mins) Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 22nd May 1859. His childhood was blighted by his father’s heavy drinking which for some years broke up the family. Fortunately, wealthy uncles were willing to support them by paying for education and clothing. He...
Read by Tom McLean (Unabridged: 1hr 13mins) 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, then part of the Russian Empire and rich in Cossack traditions and folklore. His...
Volume 4 – The Hinge Of Fate - Winston S. Churchill; The History Of The Second World War. Although The Grand Alliance was now in place Churchill knew that it would take precious time before it would be able to effectively engage and subdue the enemy. Disaster was upon him almost...
Volume 3 – The Grand Alliance - Winston S. Churchill; The History Of The Second World War. The Blitz continued to rain down on the shell and morale of the Nation’s defences. In the cold grey waters of the North Atlantic wolfpacks of enemy U boats hunted down with ruthless efficiency...
(Unabridged: 29mins) Rumi, claimed as the national poet of Iran, Turkey & Afghanistan had an early life dedicated to scholarly studies. He only started to write poetry after encountering a holy man called Shams whose subsequent death instilled a profound grief in Rumi and an outpouring of many thousands of...
Read by Bill Hootkins (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) The Bostonians is set ten years after the end of the American Civil War. The North had been victorious because of its industrial strength, but could not live up to the ideals for which it fought. James satirizes the North’s moral decline in...
Read by Lorelei King (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Little Women is constructed as a series of episodes which are almost complete stories in their own right. Incidents in the lives of the March sisters act as fables, each illustrating a moral point. In her novel, Louisa May Alcott describes her characters'...