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(Unabridged: 56mins) Perhaps England’s greatest literary family. To find one brilliant novelist in a family is extremely rare. But two? Three? The Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily Jane and Anne together with their brother Patrick are famed throughout the World. But amongst their many talents was poetry. Of course being Bronte’s...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 15mins) Featuring poems by Thomas Shadwell, Robert Southey, John Dryden, John Skelton, William Davenant & others. Volume 1 - The office of Poet Laureate is a high honour amongst poets. The Ancient Greeks had the first idea and their heroes and Poets...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 4mins) John Milton was born in Bread Street, London, on December 9th, 1608. His early years were privately tutored before gaining a place at St Paul’s School and in 1625 he matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge, earning a BA...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 1hr 14mins) Featuring poems by Alice Corbin, Pauline Barrington, Charlotte Mew, Amy Lowell, Jessie Pope, Edith Wharton & 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: 40mins) October - The tenth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the land prepares to give up more it its colourful coverings. On this and other themes our poets including Wordsworth, Rossetti, Arnold, Bryant and Alford have much to say. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley...
Read by Eve Karpf, Janet Fullerlove & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 7hrs 56mins) Featuring stories by Winifred Holtby, Emma Vane, Katherine Mansfield, Marjorie Bowen, Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Edwards & others. A wise man once said ‘The safest place for a child is in the arms of his mother’s voice’. This is a perfect place to...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 21mins) Featuring poems by Christina Georgina Rossetti, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ben Jonson, G K Chesterton, & 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...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 2hrs 43mins) Alfred McLelland Burrage was born in Hillingdon, Middlesex on 1st July, 1889. His father and uncle were both writers, primarily of boy’s fiction, and by age 16 AM Burrage had joined them. The young man had ambitions to write for the...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Sean Barrett & David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 1hr 17mins)e Featuring poems by William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson & Alfred Austin. The office of Poet Laureate goes back many centuries – informally to the time of Geoffrey Chaucer in 1389 and followed thereafter by a number of ‘volunteer laureates’....
Read by Christopher Ragland & Eric Meyers (Unabridged: 2hrs 51mins) William Sydney Porter was born on 11th September 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina. At age 3 his mother died from tuberculosis. From an early age it was clear Porter had a large appetite for reading as he absorbed the world around him....