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Poetry and prose together from literary greats. Read by Alex Jennings, Richard Mitchley & Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 2hrs 1min) 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 David Shaw-Parker & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 28mins) Algernon Blackwood was born on 14th March 1869 in Shooter’s Hill, South East London, to a religious middle-class family. His mother was a widowed Duchess and his father was a Post Office administrator. Blackwood was interested in the paranormal and the...
Written by Frank Wedekind (Unabridged: 1hr 40mins) London, 1944. Seemingly far from the war in Europe, two schoolboys find they have much more pressing concerns than the fighting on the front-line. Melchior rekindles a passionate love affair with an old flame, but beneath his confident, roguish exterior lies a young...
Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave and Olivier himself. They were...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow & Nigel Planer (Unabridged: 1hr 25mins) Featuring poems by Lord Byron, Aphra Behn, Edward Lear, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Man’s best friend. An always faithful ally. Whether the dog is domesticated as a pet and there to enjoy life with a family or as a work-dog...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe & Eleanor Rushton (Unabridged: 1hr 48mins) Featuring poems from Rumi, Mirabai, Confucius & many more. Whilst the notion of the Mystic East and Oriental wisdom was greatly romanticised by the Victorians and others, the shadow of Colonialism has smudged the view. These great cultures are some...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 3hrs 17mins) 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 later use of American Gothic and dark romanticism in his writing. He was a...
Read by Alfred Keen (Abridged: 23mins) The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayham is a beautiful work of art much admired from generation to generation. Written in the eleventh century it is here brought to this audiobook by the great and accomplished actor offstage and screen Alfred Drake. Together with...
The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour. Damon Runyon is acknowledged as one of the great writers to come out of twentieth century America. Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named, and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 24mins) Featuring poems by Lord Byron, John Dryden, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, GK Chesterton, Andrew Marvell, John Milton & others. ‘If music be the food of love play on.’ The evocative words of William Shakespeare not only capture...