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Read by Tom McLean, Mark Rice-Oxley & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 4mins) Franz Kafka was born on 3rd July 1883 in Prague, then in Bohemia, the eldest of 6, into a middle-class Jewish family. Life for the young Kafka and his passion for literature was often made an ordeal by his over-bearing...
Read by Nigel Planer, Richard Mitchley & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 10mins) Featuring poems by William Blake, John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, John Clare & others. The Romantics – Volume 2. Romanticism was a new movement in philosophy and the arts that began in the late 18th century...
Read by Tim Graham, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 9mins) Featuring poems from Robert Herrick, WB Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Arthur Conan Doyle, William Wordsworth, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow & many more. Over the centuries the Christian festival of the celebration of Christ has lost much of its religious element as...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 7hrs 4mins) Featuring stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, Margaret Oliphant, JM Barrie, John Buchan & 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 lives into...
Read by Liza Ross, Eve Karpf & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 4hrs 5mins) Katherine Mansfield was a mistress of the short story form. Her stories often start with what seems like an abrupt interruption into peoples lives yet, within a sentence or two, we are wholly at home in these new settings. Her tragic...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 2hrs 33mins) Featuring stories by Virginia Woolf, Arthur Machen & 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 is perhaps their...
American short story master Hawthorne gives us a gothic tale of love and jealousy with a scientific twist. Read by Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 1hr 12mins) Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on 4th July 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, a town synonymous with the earlier Salem Witch Trials. It was instrumental in Hawthorne’s...
Poetry and prose together from literary greats. Read by Libby Brunton, Shyama Perara & Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 1hr 31mins) Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. An author’s ideas...
Read by Ian Holm & Julie Peasgood (Unabridged: 2hrs 38min) Featuring stories by Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, AM Burrage & more. These five chilling tales make perfect night time listening - and, for the fearful, can be heard in a group, rather than experienced as solo bedtime reading. Charles Dickens, Wilkie...
Read by Nigel Anthony (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Crime and Punishment is set in the claustrophobic slums of St Petersburg in the heat of the summer. The novel's setting mirrors the inner life of the main characters as they struggle with their problems of grinding poverty.