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Read by Sir Christopher Lee (Abridged: 2hrs 22mins) From the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral, Quasimodo, the hunchback, looks down on the turmoil of Paris with a bitter eye. He is an outsider, tormented and derided because he is deformed and as ugly as a gargoyle. But love for the beautiful...
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 Eve Karpf, Janet Fullerlove & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 8hrs 13mins) Featuring stories by Constance Cotterell, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Frances E Huntley, Violet Hunt & 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...
Amy Levy was born in London, England in 1861, the second of seven in a fairly wealthy Anglo-Jewish family. The children read and participated in secular literary activities and became firmly integrated into Victorian life. Her education was at Brighton High School, Brighton, before studies at Newnham College, Cambridge; she...
(Unabridged: 43mins) August - The eighth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the full palette of nature is on glorious display. Our poets, Wordsworth, Swinburne, Alford, Riley and Hardy describe and reveal their thoughts on the month and notable dates within it. Among our readers are Richard...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 16mins) Featuring poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, William Shakespeare, Henry David Thoreau, Vachel Lindsay & 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...
Read by Phil Reynolds (Unabridged: 2hrs 52mins) Considered to the be one of most influential American authors, Howard Philip Lovecraft is synonymous with some of the best fantasy and horror fiction of the 20th century, second only to Edgar Allan Poe. When local newspapers report strange things seen floating in...
(Unabridged: 1hr 48mins) Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts. His father, a sea captain died when Nathaniel was 4 and Nathaniel always a shy child spent his early years with his Mother and two sisters. Hit on the leg by a ball, doctors could finds...
(Unabridged: 3hrs 11mins) Performed by The Marlowe Society The play centres on the warrior Caius Marcius Coriolanus who, aside from his military prowess and political alliances, supports the old patrician model of Roman authority and is therefore totally out of touch with the needs of the ordinary people. This flaw...
Read by Christopher Ragland & Laurel Lefkow (Unabridged: 1hr 57mins) John Griffith Chaney was born on January 12th, 1876 in San Francisco. His father, William Chaney, was living with Flora Wellman when she became pregnant. Chaney insisted she have an abortion. Flora's response was to turn a gun on herself. Although...