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Read by Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 47mins) Edward Payson Roe was born on 17th March 1838 in the village of Moodna, now part of New Windsor, in New York State. He received his education at Williams College and thence entered Auburn Theological Seminary. In 1862 he was appointed as chaplain to...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 24mins) Featuring poems by Louisa May Alcott, John Keats, Hafiz, Victor Hugo & 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 we...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 16mins) Featuring poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, William Shakespeare, Henry David Thoreau, Vachel Lindsay & 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...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 17mins) Featuring poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Percy Bysshe Shelley & 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...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 18mins) Featuring poems by Amy Levy, Kabir, Walt Whitman, Willa Cather & 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 we hereby...
Read by Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 18mins) Some would argue that Jane Austen was England’s finest authoress and it would be hard to argue against. The characters and sweep of the lives of the landed gentry and her grip on social commentary in Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Emma, Northanger...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 26mins) Featuring poems by Rudyard Kiping, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Edward Thomas & 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 we hereby...
(Unabridged: 23mins) Before Gilbert was part of the famous Gilbert & Sullivan opera team, he wrote light verse that was very odd but arrived at a logical conclusion...we think! Luckily, the joyous Stanley Holloway is on hand to read and make sense of it all.
(Unabridged: 40mins) October - The tenth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the land prepares to give up more it its colourful coverings. On this and other themes our poets including Wordsworth, Rossetti, Arnold, Bryant and Alford have much to say. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley...
(Unabridged: 49mins) January - The first month of the year in the Gregorian calendar ushers in the New Year. The cold and bleak landscape of winter however provides a rich background for our esteemed poets such as Byron, Longfellow, Cowper and Bronte to offer us their reflections and counterpoints. Among...