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(Unabridged: 53mins) Oscar Wilde is a giant and legend as a writer and as a wit. But there is a softer, gentler side in some of his short stories for children. Admired and beloved through the generations in this collection the wonderful British actor Basil Rathbone brings these superb...
Read by Eve Karpf, Kelly O'Doherty & Stephen Hogan (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) Francis Edward Ledwidge was born on 19th August, 1887 in the small village of Janeville in Slane, County Meath in Ireland to parents that believed strongly in education. At the age of 5 his father died and the entire family, already...
Read by James Taylor, Nigel Planer & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 10mins) Edward Lear. Ah Nonsense! The English it is often said have a peculiar brand of humour. Along with copious cups of tea and a stiff upper lip it keeps life together in moments of difficulty and strife. One of...
Read by Jan Francis, Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Nigel Planer & Nigel Davenport (Unabridged: 1hr 4mins) Featuring poems by Alexander Pope, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe & others. The English language has grown into the Worlds pre-dominant spoken language. It’s estimated there are over one million words with...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitcheley (Unabridged: 1hr 4mins) Featuring poems by William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Robert Browning, John Clare, Katherine Mansfield & others. Spring by tradition begins the renewal both of ourselves and of nature. The very sound of the word suggests impetus and movement...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Stella Gonet (Unabridged: 1hr 33mins) Featuring poems by Jane Austen, Dorothy Wordsworth, Charlotte Smith, Anna Seward & more. For much of history women have been seen rather than heard. Their thoughts, their views have lain too long in the shadows of our culture. Whilst...
Read by Gideon Wagner & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 10mins) Featuring poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Charles Bauderlaire, John Keats, Victor Hugo, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lord Byron & others. Who does not remember the immortal lines from childhood – ‘Break Break Break On Thy Cold Grey Stones’. The seas and oceans...
Read by Libby Brunton & Tania Rodrigues (Unabridged: 57mins) Aphra Behn was a prolific and well-established poet and playwright but facts about her life remain scant and difficult to confirm. What can safely be said is that Aphra Behn is regarded as a key English playwright and a major figure in...
Abridged: 6hrs 7mins Heroes or villains? In the 1960’s London’s gangland was ruled by two men – Reggie and Ronnie Kray. Building an empire of crime by intimidation, extortion and terror on a scale never seen before or since, they feted stars of stage and screen, sportsmen and even politicians...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 3hrs 29mins) Featuring poems by Sara Teasdale, G.K. Chesterton, Siegfried Sassoon, Amy Lowell, Thomas Hardy, Ford Madox Ford & others. In the War a great volume of poetry was written, produced and published in books, periodicals, newspapers or letters back to home. ...