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Read by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 2hrs 52mins) The Bard, William Shakespeare, is the supreme talent of playwriting and perhaps also of those 14 lines of verse we call the Sonnet. The Elizabethan Sonnet Cycle was a popular form for poets in the 16th Century with...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 58mins) Featuring poems by John Keats, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Hardy, William Wordsworth & more. For many of us Autumn, or as the Americans would say; Fall is the season of mixed emotions. Summer’s long days are replaced by...
(Unabridged: 56mins) William Wordsworth was born on the 7th of April, 1770 and is rightly regarded as a major English poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature. His words have been proffered by many a tongue around the world. They stir, they inspire...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Eve Karpf & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 14mins) Featuring poems by Amy Levy, William Butler Yeats, Walt Whitman, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hafiz, John Keats, Alfred Lord Tennyson & others. The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar saunters into mid-summer. Temperatures rise still further. The landscape may...
Read by Richard Mitchley, William Dufris & Daniela Nardini (Unabridged: 1hr 48mins) Featuring poems by John Donne, Ben Jonson, Anne Bronte, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sara Teasdale & others. Through the centuries in the solace of a church we hear music. These soaring vaulted often beautiful pieces of architecture...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 52mins) Strictly speaking The Lake Poets were not a movement or school of poetry they were only so named as such by The Edinburgh Review so that they could be disparaged. It was a spectacular backfire! The three main...
(Unabridged: 2hrs 33mins) Performed by The Marlowe Society King John by William Shakespeare is a richly dramatic account of the reign of King John who ruled England from 1199–1216. It is a fascinating narrative of Court politics as well as the complex relationship between England and France. The play was...
Read by William Roberts (Abridged: 2hrs 24mins) The Portrait of a Lady focuses first and foremost on the character and experiences of its heroine Isabel Archer. She is, in Henry James' words, the ‘lighted’ character; all the other people in the novel remain relatively obscure. Their dealings with Isabel, for...
Read by John Michael MacDonald, Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 24mins) On 29th November 1775 Thomas Jefferson said “Believe me, dear Sir, there is not, in the British Empire, a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But, by the God that made...
Read by Roger Blake (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Stevenson's classic tale of 18th-century intrigue, conspiracy and piracy has everything an adventure story should have, especially a resourceful young hero in Jim Hawkins. From the moment a drunken sailor arrives to menace the tranquillity of his father's inn, Jim is caught up...