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Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 10mins) Ivor Bertie Gurney was born in Gloucester on 28th August 1890. A chorister at Gloucester cathedral Ivor began to compose music at 14 before winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in 1911. Noted for his...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Eve Karpf & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 2hrs 8mins George Robert Gissing was born on November 22nd, 1857 in Wakefield, Yorkshire. He was educated at Back Lane School in Wakefield. Gissing loved school. He was enthusiastic with a thirst for learning and always diligent. By the age of...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick & Mark Rice-Oxley (Unabridged: 3hrs 3mins) Edward Frederic Benson was born in Berkshire, England on 24th July 1867. Educated at Marlborough and Kings College Cambridge he began his career as a writer at an early age and was published whilst still studying. Benson was...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley & Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 1hr 15mins) Featuring poems by Edith Nesbit, Edgar Allan Poe, DH Lawrence, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Khalil Gibran & more. ‘From this day forward…’ are words intoned in every conventional marriage ceremony as two people interweave their lives with all its plans, its...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & David Shaw-Parker (UnabridgedL: 4hrs 46mins) Featuring stories by Ada Radford, Netta Syrett & others. During the Victorian era the publishing of magazines and periodicals accelerated at a phenomenal rate. This really was mass market publishing to a hungry audience eager for literary sustenance. Many of...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 52mins) Strictly speaking The Lake Poets were not a movement or school of poetry they were only so named as such by The Edinburgh Review so that they could be disparaged. It was a spectacular backfire! The three main...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & David Shaw-Parker (UnabridgedL: 5hrs 3mins) Featuring stories by Charlotte Mew, John Buchan, Kenneth Grahame & others. During the Victorian era the publishing of magazines and periodicals accelerated at a phenomenal rate. This really was mass market publishing to a hungry audience eager for...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 9mins) What’s in a word? Apart from its value as a unit of information is there something more? Of course. Many words sound and express themselves, when rolled around the soul and mouth, as something both desirable, tangible and...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 10hours 15mins) Featuring stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, Charlotte Riddell, Bram Stoker, Lady Gregory & others. These British Isles, moored across from mainland Europe, are more often seen as a world unto themselves. Restless and creative, they often warred amongst...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 2hrs 57mins) Mary Elizabeth Braddon was born in London on the 4th October 1835. At age 5 her parents separated but her ambition to succeed was not daunted. After being privately educated she took to acting, and the minor roles...