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Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Tim Graham (Unabridged: 1hr 18mins) Featuring poems by John Donne, Ben Jonson, Christina Rossetti, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Alfred Lord Tennyson & others. Christmas, they say, comes but once a year. In these days it seems to also last for much of...
Read by Tim Graham & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 58mins) Featuring poems by William Blake, Rudyard Kipling, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Eugene Field & others. The role of Fathers has changed much over the course of centuries. Men are now better suited to a role of co-parent in this modern age...
(Unabridged: 29mins) Rumi, claimed as the national poet of Iran, Turkey & Afghanistan had an early life dedicated to scholarly studies. He only started to write poetry after encountering a holy man called Shams whose subsequent death instilled a profound grief in Rumi and an outpouring of many thousands of...
(Unabridged: 1hr 16mins) These three stories are amongst the finest by Katherine Mansfield, a woman highly regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. In these bittersweet tales she gently reveals the emotions and feelings within the lives of apparently unexceptional people. Her stories offer a sensitive insight...
(Unabridged: 57mins) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in 1807 in Portland Maine (then part of Massachusetts) into a privileged background. Studious, he worked hard and grew to love languages as well as poetry from an early age. He travelled extensively in Europe for 3 years, immersing himself in various languages,...
Read by Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 55mins) Sara Trevor Teasdale was born on 8th August, 1884 in St Louis, Missouri. A child of poor health she was 14 years old when she was well enough to begin school. Her first poetry publication was in 1907 with her second book in 1911....
Read by Anna-Juliana Clare (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Emma is one of the most delightful but also one of the most domineering of Jane Austen’s heroines. Her attempts at manipulating other people’s lives start in fun and end in hurt feelings and embarrassment for all concerned. The frothiness of the novel gives...
(Unabridged: 57mins) Many nations have produced outstanding poets who they would gladly have represent their Culture. But can any Nation say they have an equivalent of Robert Burns...The Ploughman Poet, The Bard Of Scotland? This one poet is indelibly linked and intertwined with the culture and people of Scotland. His...
Volume 4 - Most famous for his tales of crimes and deduction, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle also had a passion for suspense, the supernatural and the macabre as demonstrated in this collection of gothic short stories. The stories featured in this volume include: The Leather Funnel, The Beetle Hunter, The...
Read by Anthony Valentine (Abridged: 2hrs 24mins) Edmond Dantès, an innocent young sailor, falls into despair when he is arrested on a false charge of treason and thrown into prison without a trial. He learns of his friends' betrayal from the Abbé Faria, an equally innocent prisoner, and plots his...