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Read by Christopher Timothy (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) The action of Billy Budd is set within the claustrophobic confines of a British man-of-war ship in the mutiny shadowed summer of 1797. Here, cramped between decks, live the crew of HMS Indomitable, many of them pressed into service against their will, and...
Read by Jim Norton (Abridged: 2hrs 59mins) Set against the background of Dublin at the turn of the century, Joyce's celebrated collection of short stories recount a series of unremarkable incidents in the lives of ordinary men and women. Stylistically straightforward, it is Joyce's eye for detail, matched only by...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 48mins) Isobel Violet Hunt was born on 28th September 1862 in Durham. As a young child her family moved to London and Hunt was brought up amongst the Pre-Raphaelite circle of artists. As a writer she was comfortable and talented enough to write across several forms...
(Abridged: 2hrs 57mins) The Life and Music of George Gershwin by Ean Wood. Gershwin’s musical genius is undeniable and this book explores both the man and his works with extensive material from the Gershwin ‘s family archive, exclusive interviews with musicians and . This fresh account is further livened by...
(Unabridged: 1hr 4mins) Volume One features audio interviews with Gareth David-Lloyd (Torchwood), Deborah Watling (Doctor Who), and Phil Willmott (Jupiter Moon). Deborah Watling is best known for her role as Victoria in Doctor Who, alongside the second Doctor, Patrick Troughton. However many people aren’t aware of her extensive acting career...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Nigel Planer & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 28mins) Featuring poems by Wilfred Owen, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lewis Carroll, Robert Burns, William Shakespeare & others. Our own lives are possible because of fathers. It may be as limited as a procreational act and we...
Refusing to believe that his son is dead, Judge Mathew Deacon travels across the Atlantic to Cambridge to search for evidence of his son’s fate. However when his enquiries take him to the isolated homestead of the Northcotts, he discovers the real circumstances behind his son’s sudden disappearance – and the...
Written by Frank Wedekind (Unabridged: 1hr 40mins) London, 1944. Seemingly far from the war in Europe, two schoolboys find they have much more pressing concerns than the fighting on the front-line. Melchior rekindles a passionate love affair with an old flame, but beneath his confident, roguish exterior lies a young...
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...
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...