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Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 2hrs 33mins) Featuring stories by Virginia Woolf, Edgar Wallace, Ford Madox Ford & others. The short stories written during and about World War I are often over shadowed by the excellent verse of the War Poets. Yet the short story...
Read by Eve Karpf & Liza Ross (Unabridged: 1hr) The art of writing a short story can be barely noticed by a reader such is the quality with which they are usually written. It is a difficult trade, an unforgiving discipline but for those who master it the rewards are...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Stella Gonet & Alex Jennings (Unabridged: 1hr 24mins) Featuring poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Burns, Tagore, Emily Dickinson, WB Yeats & more. Whilst those of us old enough to remember the sixties might have thought weddings would become obsolete for all but the faithful, they...
Read by Eve Karpf, Kelly O'Doherty & Stephen Hogan (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) Francis Edward Ledwidge was born on 19th August, 1887 in the small village of Janeville in Slane, County Meath in Ireland to parents that believed strongly in education. At the age of 5 his father died and the entire family, already...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 10mins) Ivor Bertie Gurney was born in Gloucester on 28th August 1890. A chorister at Gloucester cathedral Ivor began to compose music at 14 before winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in 1911. Noted for his...
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...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 52mins) Strictly speaking The Lake Poets were not a movement or school of poetry they were only so named as such by The Edinburgh Review so that they could be disparaged. It was a spectacular backfire! The three main...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 17mins) Featuring poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Smith & 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 Roger Blake (Abridged: 2hr 25mins) When seven year old Alice cannot resist following an unusual rabbit down a hole, she enters the dream like world of Wonderland. Here, everything is extraordinary – rabbits talk, cats materalise from nowhere, babies turn into pigs, and even Alice herself changes at times....
Read by Eve Karpf, Janet Fullerlove & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 7hrs 50mins) Featuring stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Mary Anne Hoare, George Eliot & 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...