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Read by David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 8hours 35mins) Featuring stories by Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Jonathan Swift, Mary Shelley & 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 David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe & Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 2hrs 33mins) Featuring poems from Rumi, Hafiz & many more. Sufism had its origins in the early days of Islam and was defined by its mystical and philosophical absorption with the search for God and the love and grace of...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 8hours 41mins) Featuring stories by Barry Pain, Arthur Machen, WW Jacbos, Anthony Hope, Israel Zangwill, Mary Sinclair & others. These British Isles, moored across from mainland Europe, are more often seen as a world unto themselves. Restless and creative, they...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Ian Holm & Vincent Marzello (Unabridged: 3hrs 4mins) This collection of short stories contains several gothic tales to bear macabre and chilling witness to writers as diverse as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Gaskell, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins and Edith Nesbit. These tales are designed to unsettle...
(Unabridged: 2hrs 7mins) Born in 1797, her Mother died when she was only 11 days old. Mary was then raised by her Father, who remarried when she was four, with a liberal but informal upbringing. At 17 she began the relationship with the poet Percy Byshe Shelley which was the...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 3mins) Featuring poems by Alfred Austin, Matthew Arnold, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Milton & others. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford upon Avon in late April 1565 and baptized there on 26th April. He was one of eight children....
Read by Carole Boyd (Abridged: 2hrs 24mins) The story of Villette is told in flashback by Lucy Snowe, who tells of the trials of her young self first in England, and then in Belgium. Charlotte Bronte does not paint a romantic picture of an unsupported woman's life − her heroine...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 42mins) 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 not an easy...
Read by Eve Karpf, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 18mins) Food. One of the overpowering needs that we all hunger for. Whether to use as basic fuel or sophisticated tasting, food and its providers, its servers, its guests and our authors are here to converse, deliberate as courses are...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) Robert Southey was born on the 12th of August 1774 in Bristol. A poet of the Romantic school and one of the "Lake Poets". Although his fame has been eclipsed by that of his friends William Wordsworth and...