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(Unabridged: 3hrs 37mins) Born in 1857 in Poland, Joseph Conrad became a British citizen just before he turned 30. In the intervening years he lost both parents; becoming an orphan at 11 being thereafter raised by an uncle, who at 16 let the boy go to Marseille where he began...
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: 2hrs 48mins) Defoe is most well known for his classic novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders. Born around 1659 he was also a journalist, a pamphleteer, a businessman, a spy - and a writer of short stories. His life was long and colourful covering all manner of fields and...
Volume 4 – The Hinge Of Fate - Winston S. Churchill; The History Of The Second World War. Although The Grand Alliance was now in place Churchill knew that it would take precious time before it would be able to effectively engage and subdue the enemy. Disaster was upon him almost...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 3hrs 6mins) Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was born on August 5th, 1850 near Dieppe in France. Maupassant’s early life was badly torn when at age 11 (his younger brother Hervé was then five) his mother, Laure, a headstrong...
Volume 3 – The Grand Alliance - Winston S. Churchill; The History Of The Second World War. The Blitz continued to rain down on the shell and morale of the Nation’s defences. In the cold grey waters of the North Atlantic wolfpacks of enemy U boats hunted down with ruthless efficiency...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 4hrs 42mins) Science, better diet, advanced medicines are all part of a process that in the modern age keep most of us going to a ripe old age. In previous times some diseases could only be slowed and not defeated. There toil...
Poetry and prose together from literary greats. Read by Richard Mitchley, John-Michael MacDonald & Garrick Hogan (Unabridged: 1hr 48mins) 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...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Sian Phillips & Angharad Rees (Unabridged: 1hr 38mins) Featuring poems by Wilfred Owen, John Dyer, Henry Vaughan & others. It comes as no surprise to the average Welsh person that their culture continues to thrive despite centuries of seeming servitude to the English. Wales, exemplified by the symbol of...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, David Shaw-Parker & Mark Rice-Oxley (Unabridged: 2hrs 5mins) Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins was born on 9th February 1863 in Clapton, London. He was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, Marlborough College and Balliol College, Oxford. Hope trained as a lawyer and barrister and was called to...