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Read by Jan Francis, Glyn Huston & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 5mins) Featuring poems by AE Housman, John Keats, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Cowper & others. Westminster Abbey has seen much during its long, rich history; the coronations of Kings and Queens, the burials of Prime...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 5mins) Featuring poems by Aphra Behn, Anne Bradstreet, Anne Kilgrew, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Kingsmill Finch & more. For much of history women have been seen rather than heard. Their thoughts, their views have lain too long in the shadows of our...
Read by Shyama Perera, Ghizela Rowe & Libby Brunton (Unabridged: 1hr 13mins) Katherine was born on the 14th October 1888 into a prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand, the middle child of five. A gifted celloist, at one point she thought she might take it up professionally but writing gradually began to move...
Read by Dervla Kirwan, Niamh Cusack & TP McKenna (Unabridged: 58mins) This compiliation brings together some of the best poetry that Ireland can lay claim to. Full or energy, emotion; at times raw at others sensuous and evocative. From Thomas Moore to Louis MacNeice through Katherine Tynan, John Millington Synge and Oscar Wilde...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 47mins) Featuring poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell & more. For much of history women have been seen rather than heard. Their thoughts, their views have lain too long in...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 16mins) Featuring poems by William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, William Morris, Alfred Lord Tennyson & others. Summer beckons each and every one of us to its warm embrace. For many of us it is the season we can most enjoy;...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Glyn Houston, Angharad Rees & Sian Phillips (Unabridged: 54mins) This proud nation with it’s long history; sometimes rough, hewn from bleak landscapes, sometimes gently soft from its comforting voices has produced a long succession of artists and poets. In the latter category Louis MacNeice most probably stands pre-eminent, his...
Read by Christopher Ragland, Liza Ross & Danny Swopes (Unabridged: 1hr 13mins) Alan Seeger was born on 22nd June 1888 in New York. When he was one the family moved to Staten Island and nine years later onwards to Mexico for two years. After attending several elite preparatory schools he enrolled at...
Read by Christopher Ragland, Liza Ross & Danny Swopes (Unabridged: 1hr 14mins) Wallace James Stevens was born on October 2nd, 1879 in Reading, Pennsylvania. His father, a lawyer, sent Wallace to Harvard as a non-degree special student, after which he moved<p>to New York City and worked briefly as a journalist. From there...
(Unabridged: 1hr 6mins) Written by Rudyard Kipling, the popular British Victorian writer, these origin stories are fantasised tales written with a delightful sense of whimsy that charms adults and children alike. These excellent readings by Ghizela Rowe & Tim Graham makes it abundantly clear why they have become such special...