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The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour. Damon Runyon is acknowledged as one of the great writers to come out of twentieth century America. Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named, and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and...
Read by E. G. Marshall & Siobhan McKenna (Abridged: 53mins) Ulysses is a seminal novel by the Irish writer James Joyce that has had a great impact on the modernist movement. Indeed, for many critics, the novel has established most of the conventions of modern fiction and has become one...
The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour. Damon Runyon is acknowledged as one of the great writers to come out of twentieth century America. Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named, and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and...
The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour. Damon Runyon is acknowledged as one of the great writers to come out of twentieth century America. Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named, and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and...
Read by Brian Holland Rose (Abridged: 12mins) ROMEO AND JULIET is the ultimate tragic love story that has fuelled romance over generations and inspired numerous adaptations for stage, screen and beyond. The story of a feuding rivalry between two prestigious families in Verona the Montagues and the Capulets, ends in...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 29mins) Timon Of Athens. This Shakespeare play is often regarded as the most difficult and obscure of all his plays and certainly his tragedies. Our version is a very simplified form that focuses on the story of the play itself and does not use any...
Read by Ghizela Rowe (Abridged: 14mins) MEASURE FOR MEASURE is set in Vienna where the good natured but lax ruler, Vincentio is too concerned about his popularity to lay strict laws to curb wrongdoers. He pretends to go away, thereby appointing Angelo as ruler in his absence. Angelo proves to...
Read by Gideon Wagner (Abridged: 16mins) MACBETH. This tragedy of blood, deceit and betrayal is one of the most famous of Shakespeare’s works and regularly performed in theatres around the world. This performance by a distinguished cast that includes Anthony Quayle, Ian Holm, Alec McCowen and Stanley Holloway ensures that...
Read by Ghizela Rowe (Abridged: 12mins) A WINTER’S TALE is set in Sicilia where the King, Leontes, is enjoying a visit by his friend the King of Bohemia. When he wants to leave, he tries to persuade him unsuccessfully to stay. Leontes then decides to ask his wife to try...
Read by Ghizela Rowe (Abridged: 13mins) TWELFTH NIGHT is regarded as one of Shakespeare’s best loved plays and features heavily the themes of cross dressing and mistaken identity to great comic effect. Set in Illyria on the Adriatic sea it involves Lady Olivia who due to the bereavement of her...