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Read by Laurel Lefkow (Unabridged: 56mins) Zona Gale was born on 26th August 1874 in Portage, Wisconsin. She was exceptionally close to her parents and later used them as the basis for characters in her works. She wrote and illustrated her first story at the age of 7 and by 16 she...
Starring Greer Garson Originally Written by Arthur Wimperis (Unabridged: 47mins) Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as the ‘go to’ place for entertainment and has been for decades. When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than heaven Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays,...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 17mins) Featuring poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Smith & others. ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series...
Sad stories that can foster empathy, encourage gratitude and reevaluate ourselves. Read by Jim Norton, Laurel Lefkow & Elliot Fitzpatrick (Unabridged: 20hrs 12mins) Featuring stories by James Joyce, Nikolai Gogol, Katherine Mansfield, Stephen Crane, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Conrad, Sherwood Anderson, Anton Chekhov, D H Lawrence, Willa Cather, O Henry, Ivan...
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...
Read by Darrell Joe (Unabridged: 56mins) Alice Ruth Moore was born on 19th July 1875 in New Orleans where she was part of the multi-racial Creole community. She was the first generation seemingly born free after the Civil War and unusually for the times, obtained a university education which led...
(Unabridged: 1hr 9mins) This poet of Victorian times was held in awe for his magnificent works, including "In Memoriam", "Morte D'Arthur", and "Charge of the Light Brigade". His language and command of vocabulary seem particularly in keeping with the grand sweep of Victorian ambition. Many selections are asembled here and...
Read by Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 49mins) John Griffith Chaney was born on January 12th, 1876 in San Francisco. His father, William Chaney, was living with Flora Wellman when she became pregnant. Chaney insisted she have an abortion. Flora's response was to turn a gun on herself. Although her wounds were not...
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: 1hr 51mins) Herman Melville was born in New York City on 1st August 1819. At the age of 7 Melville contracted scarlet fever which permanently diminished his eyesight. Add this to a contemporary description of being "very backwards in speech and somewhat slow in comprehension"...