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Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 5mins) Featuring poems by John Keats, Sara Teasdale, Rabindranath Tagore and more. In England summer evenings remind us of the falling of the light, of village greens and the thump of willow on leather. In winter, evenings are dark,...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 42mins) Featuring poems by Rudyard Kipling, John Keats, Eugene Field, Robert Louis Stevenson, Matthew Arnold, Alfred Lord Tennyson & others. Amidst all our dreams and ambitions from cradle to grave is the wanderlust of travel. To see the world, to experience different...
Read by John Michael MacDonald (Unabridge: 1hr 1mins) There are rather few masters of horror writing out of the many who write horror. HP Lovecraft has achieved fame because his work is of a standard of excellence that few if any can rival. Here we concentrate on his poems that...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 4mins) James Elroy Flecker was born on 5th November 1884, in Lewisham, London. Flecker does not seem to have enjoyed academic study and achieved only a Third-Class Honours in Greats in 1906. This did not set him up for a...
(Unabridged: 1hr 49mins) Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 5mins) For many of us DH Lawrence was a schoolboy hero. Who can forget sniggering in class at the mention of Women In Love or Lady Chatterley’s Lover? Lawrence was a talented if nomadic writer whose novels were passionately received,...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 10mins) Rupert Chawner Brooke was born at 5 Hillmorton Road, Rugby, Warwickshire on 3rd August, 1887, the third of four children. Brooke attended preparatory school near-by at Hillbrow, and then went on to Rugby School. In 1905, he became friends with...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) Michael Drayton was born in 1563 at Hartshill, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. The facts of his early life remain unknown. Drayton first published, in 1590, a volume of spiritual poems; The Harmony of the Church. Ironically the Archbishop...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) Robert Laurence Binyon, CH, was born on 10th August 1869 in Lancaster in Lancashire, England to Quaker parents, Frederick Binyon and Mary Dockray. He studied at St Paul's School, London before enrolling at Trinity College, Oxford, to read classics....
Read by Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 50mins) Charlotte Turner Smith was born on 4th May 1749 in London. Her early years were dominated by her mother’s early death and her father’s reckless spending. At age 15 she married Benjamin Smith in order to rid her father of his gambling debts. Charlotte...