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Read by Jo Wyatt (Unabridged: 49mins) In the small village of Haworth in Yorkshire the Bronte family created novels and poems that are still admired to this day around the world. The youngest of the three Bronte sisters, Anne, was born on 17th January 1820. The author of ‘Agnes Grey’...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 8hours 48mins) Featuring stories by Ford Madox Ford, Saki, Algernon Blackwood, Perceval Landon & others. These British Isles, moored across from mainland Europe, are more often seen as a world unto themselves. Restless and creative, they often warred amongst themselves...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley & Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 1hr 15mins) Featuring poems by Edith Nesbit, Edgar Allan Poe, DH Lawrence, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Khalil Gibran & more. ‘From this day forward…’ are words intoned in every conventional marriage ceremony as two people interweave their lives with all its plans, its...
(Unabridged: 1hr 12mins) Featuring poems by Elizabeth Barratt Browning, Emily Jane Bronte, Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, Eliza Cook, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson & others. The gentler sex or the deadlier of the species. Between these two definitions of the female gender lies a collection of some of the most beautiful verse ever...
Read by Carole Boyd & David Rintoul (Abridged: 2hrs 24mins) When a beautiful young woman, thought to be recently widowed, suddenly moves into the half ruined Wildfell Hall with her five year old son, young squire Gilbert Markham and the local residents are intrigued. Gilbert meets the aloof newcomer Helen...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 6mins) Charlotte Mary Mew was born on 15th November, 1869 in London to professional parents – her father was responsible for the design of Hampstead Town Hall. Charlotte, one of seven children; three of whom died in early childhood,...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Mark Rice-Oxley(Unabridged: 10:15mins) Featuring stories by Charlotte Riddell, Thomas Hardy, Lady Gregory & many more These British Isles, moored across from mainland Europe, are more often seen as a world unto themselves. Restless and creative, they often warred amongst themselves until they began...
Read by Hannah Gordon (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) The year in 1801. In this section, all the principal characters are introduced. Mr Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, arrives at Wuthering Height to meet his landlord, Heathcliff. The next day, he encounters Hareton, the orphaned son of Hindley Earnshaw, and...
Read by Eve Karpf, Janet Fullerlove & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 8hrs 33mins) Featuring stories Charlotte Mew, Fanny Kemble Johnson, Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, Elinor Mordaunt & 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 start our anthology...
Read by Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 50mins) Charlotte Turner Smith was born on 4th May 1749 in London. Her early years were dominated by her mother’s early death and her father’s reckless spending. At age 15 she married Benjamin Smith in order to rid her father of his gambling debts. Charlotte...