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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 Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) Robert Seymour Bridges, OM was born on 23rd October 1844 at Walmer in Kent where he spent his early childhood in a house overlooking the anchoring ground of the British fleet. His father died aged only 47 in...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 5mins) Featuring poems by Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Hardy, H.P. Lovecraft, Nathaniel Hawthorne, W.B. Yeats & more. The sun has descended below the far horizon. The inky blackness of night begins to envelop the land. Day has gone and the nocturnal...
Read by Garard Green, Jake Urry & David Shaw Parker (Unabridged: 3hrs 13mins) Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on the 16th October 1854 in Dublin, Ireland. The son of Dublin intellectuals Oscar proved himself an outstanding classicist at Trinity College and then at Oxford. Wilde then moved...
Read by William Dufris, Richard Mitchley, William Hootkins & Lorelei King (Unabridged: 1hr 16mins) Featuring poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe & others. Poetry can sometimes be elusive, the real meaning layered beneath another. In this volume American Poets...
(Unabridged: 39mins) December - The 12th month and closing month in the Gregorian calendar. Winter is upon the land and the poets including such as Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Shakespeare and Stevenson reflect their views and thoughts. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. Tracklist - December - An Introduction;...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Gideon Wagner & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 27mins) Featuring poems by Edward Thomas, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, James Elroy Flecker, Alan Seeger & more. War may be rationalized as ‘diplomacy by other means’ but the reality is that when tribes, Nations and peoples bring themselves into armed...
(Unabridged: 2hrs 10mins) Jerome K. Jerome - An early life of poverty exacerbated by the death of his parents in his early teens helped to cruelly mould the young Jerome. After early stints on the railways, as an actor, a journalist, a school teacher, a writer and a solicitors clerk...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 44mins) The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task....
(Unabridged: 1hr 16mins) Katherine O'Flaherty, far better known as Kate Chopin, is widely considered to be one of our greatest novelists excelling especially with her many short stories. Born in Louisiana her Creole, Cajun, Irish and French background would help to provide a rich source of ideas for her literary...