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Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 57mins) 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...
Read by Gideon Wagner, Richard Mitchley & Tim Graham (Unabridged: 51mins) In the Scottish canon to be placed alongside Burns is high praise indeed but it’s a rightful place for one of Scotland’s finest novelists and here, poets. Born in 1850 he managed to cram much into his 44...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Jake Urry & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) Israel Zangwill was born in London on 21st January 1864, to a family of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire. Zangwill was initially educated in Plymouth and Bristol. At age 9 he was enrolled in the Jews' Free School...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) Robert Southey was born on the 12th of August 1774 in Bristol. A poet of the Romantic school and one of the "Lake Poets". Although his fame has been eclipsed by that of his friends William Wordsworth and...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 1min) The Clergyman and poet, Robert Herrick was born in Cheapside, in London in 1591. An exact date is not known though he was baptized on August 24th, the seventh child of Nicholas Herrick, a wealthy goldsmith. Some controversy...
(Unabridged: 38mins) March - The third month of the year in the Gregorian calendar brings with it the Spring Equinox and the promise of warmer days and shorter nights. Our selected poets including Swift, Yeats, Morris, Swinburne and Austin of course provide the words to match the mood. Among our...
Read by Garrick Hogan & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 3hrs 2mins) This collection of short stories contains several gothic tales to bear macabre and chilling witness to writers as diverse as HP Lovecraft, Rudyard Kipling and Edith Nesbit. These tales are designed to unsettle you, just a little, as you sit...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 1min) Kabir, meaning Great and one of the 99 names of God in Arabic, was a mystic and poet, born around 1440 in Varanasi to poor Muslim parents. Another account claims he was the child of a Brahmin widow. He himself said...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 24mins) Featuring poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Sir John Suckling & others. ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this...
Read by Mark Rice-Oxley, Christopher Ragland & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 6hrs 54mins) Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that...