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Read by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker & Ian Holm (Unabridged: 6hrs 44mins) Featuring stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, MR James & others. 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...
Read by Richard Mitchley, William Dufris & Daniela Nardini (Unabridged: 1hr 48mins) Featuring poems by John Donne, Ben Jonson, Anne Bronte, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sara Teasdale & others. Through the centuries in the solace of a church we hear music. These soaring vaulted often beautiful pieces of architecture...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 17mins) Featuring poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Percy Bysshe Shelley & 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...
Read by Stephen Hogan, Kelly O'Doherty & David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 54mins) James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on the 2nd February 1882 in Dublin into a middle-class family, and the eldest of ten surviving siblings Admired as a brilliant student he briefly attended the Christian Brothers-run O'Connell School before excelling...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 47mins) Featuring poems by Thomas Hardy, Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson & others. At this time of the year as the nights close in and the temperature drops Winter seems like a season that nobody really enjoys...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 9mins) Featuring poems by John Keats, Walt Whitman, William Morris, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Van Dyke, Sara Teasdale, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Louis Stevenson. Nature assembles all its glories among the twelve months of the year and...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 5mins) Featuring poems by Aphra Behn, Anne Bradstreet, Anne Kilgrew, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Kingsmill Finch & more. For much of history women have been seen rather than heard. Their thoughts, their views have lain too long in the shadows of our...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 15mins) Featuring poems by John Donne, Ben Jonson, DH Lawrence & others. Love. What is love? The question is asked by each of us but the answer remains elusive. Dictionaries summon up many words but none fulfill. Love itself is often ethereal, felt but...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 11mins) Featuring poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Makepeace Thackeray, Oscar Wilde, WB Yeats & others. Victorian Poetry – Volume 3 - An Introduction. Victoria’s reign was long and presided over the restless expansion of the British Empire...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 2hrs 57mins) Mary Elizabeth Braddon was born in London on the 4th October 1835. At age 5 her parents separated but her ambition to succeed was not daunted. After being privately educated she took to acting, and the minor roles...