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(Unabridged: 3hrs 9mins) Howard Phillips Lovecraft is among the greatest American writers of fantasy and the supernatural. Born in 1890, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, his health was uncertain from childhood and he led a sheltered early life. His semi-invalidism enabled him to read omnivorously, and as a shy imaginative...
Love poems for married people. Read by Alex Jennings, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hrs 49mins) Featuring poems by Khalil Gibran, Sara Teasdale, Robert Burns, John Keats, Edward Lear, James Weldon Johnson, Lord Byron, Edna St Vincent Millay, Edmund Spenser & many more. The meeting, the courtship, the wedding and the honeymoon have all now been completed. Having got this...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 21mins) Featuring poems by James Joyce, John Keats, John Ruskin, Sara Teasdale & 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 series we...
Richard Mitchley, John Michael MacDonald & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 48mins) Mankind has many marks upon its name, many tragedies of its own making. The subjugating of other people, which still continues to this day, is perhaps its greatest stain. Men, women and children who are bought sold, used and...
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 David Shaw-Parker & Jake Urry: (Unabridged: 1hr 54mins) 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 to London and its...
Poetry and prose together from literary greats. Read by Alex Jennings, Richard Mitchley & Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 2hrs 1min) Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. An author’s ideas...
Poetry and prose together from literary greats. Read by Alex Jennings, Richard Mitchley & Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 2hrs 4mins) Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. An author’s ideas...
Stories about life as a soldier, love in a time of war, horrors of battle & more Read by Laurel Lefkow, Eric Meyers & Christopher Ragland(Unabridged: 5hrs 50mins) Featuring stories by Ambrose Bierce, Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather & more. War is always a tragedy. There may be a winner...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 42mins) 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...