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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. ...
(Unabridged: 2hrs 3mins) Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt communicated by letter from 1939 to 1945 on a direct and personal basis. Their letters chart the events of the war as they unfold and also their attempts to influence and overcome the great tyranny of Nazism. Interspersed throughout are readings from...
Volume 5 – Closing The Ring - Winston S. Churchill; The History Of The Second World War. As the Allies prepared for the Normandy invasion many war councils were held. At Teheran, the first of the Big Three conferences, decisive steps were taken to ensure this. Discussion was opened as to...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 9hours 52mins) Featuring stories by Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Elizabeth Gaskell, Edward Lear, Sheridan Le Fanu & others. These British Isles, moored across from mainland Europe, are more often seen as a world unto themselves. Restless and creative, they...
Volume 6 – Triumph & Tragedy - Winston S. Churchill; The History Of The Second World War. With the beach landings of June 6th in the greatest amphibious assault ever seen the final phase of the war had begun. Churchill could survey his task with an easier mind. His relationship with...
Volume 1 – The Gathering Storm - Winston S. Churchill; The History Of The Second World War. In the Second World War every bond between man and man was to perish. Crimes were committed by the Hitler regime which find no equal in scale and wickedness with any that have darkened...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 53mins) Featuring stories by Edith Nesbit, Rudyard Kipling & Anatol France The problem with the dark is you don’t really know what’s lurking in there. Something hiding? Something menacing? Or just an inky dome for the stars to twinkle on? Writers rarely let us...
(Unabridged: 2hrs 33mins) Performed by The Marlowe Society King John by William Shakespeare is a richly dramatic account of the reign of King John who ruled England from 1199–1216. It is a fascinating narrative of Court politics as well as the complex relationship between England and France. The play was...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 2hrs 28mins) London’s East End has over the centuries been a magnet for immigration, innovation, culture, crime and a vast spectrum of other things. It is often seen as both part of and yet very distinct from the vast metropolis of London. ...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Jake Urry & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 2hrs 33mins) Featuring poems by Sara Teasdale, Edith Wharton, Amy Lowell, A.E. Housman, Thomas Hardy, D.H. Lawrence, John Galsworthy, G.K. Chesterton & more. War may be rationalized as ‘diplomacy by other means’ but the reality is that when tribes, Nations and...