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Read by David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 8hours 45mins) Featuring stories by DH Lawrence, WF Harvey, Virginia Woolf, AM Burrage, James Joyce & others. These British Isles, moored across from mainland Europe, are more often seen as a world unto themselves. Restless and creative, they often warred...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Robbie McNab (Abridged: 3hrs 23mins) Rudyard Kipling that great Victorian, that great writer of Empire, that great man; from ‘The Jungle Book’ to ‘The Man Who Would Be King’ to a great and voluminous poet with works of the calibre of ‘If’ and ‘On The Road...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick & Mark Rice-Oxley (Unabridged: 3hrs 3mins) Edward Frederic Benson was born in Berkshire, England on 24th July 1867. Educated at Marlborough and Kings College Cambridge he began his career as a writer at an early age and was published whilst still studying. Benson was...
Read by Ghizela Rowe (Abridged: 13mins) TWELFTH NIGHT is regarded as one of Shakespeare’s best loved plays and features heavily the themes of cross dressing and mistaken identity to great comic effect. Set in Illyria on the Adriatic sea it involves Lady Olivia who due to the bereavement of her...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Eve Karpf & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 8mins) Featuring poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hafiz, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson & others. The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar heralds a new season – Summer. Lengthening days, Sunshine days, Glorious days! In this month our classic poets flex their...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 15mins) 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...
(Unabridged: 2hrs 43mins) Elizabeth Gaskell is equally well known as Mrs Gaskell. When her mother died, she was three months old and she was sent to live in Knutsford, Cheshire with her Aunt Hannah, this setting would become the basis for her novel Cranford. At 22 she married and settled in...
Read by Darrell Joe (Unabridged: 4hrs 23mins) Featuring stories by Frances W Harper, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Ruth D Todd, Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman, Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman, Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman & 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...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 2hrs 28mins) London’s East End has over the centuries been a magnet for immigration, innovation, culture, crime and a vast spectrum of other things. It is often seen as both part of and yet very distinct from the vast metropolis of London. ...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 11hours 34mins) Featuring stories by Joseph Conrad, Edith Nesbit, MR James, Katherine Tynan, Kenneth Grahame & others. These British Isles, moored across from mainland Europe, are more often seen as a world unto themselves. Restless and creative, they often warred amongst themselves...