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Read by Richard Mitchley & Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 1hr 36mins) Herbert George Wells was born on September 21st, 1866 in Bromley in Kent. He was the youngest of four siblings and his family affectionately knew him as ‘Bertie’. The first few years of his childhood were spent fairly quietly, and...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 1hr 35mins) Herbert George Wells was born on September 21st, 1866 in Bromley in Kent. He was the youngest of four siblings and his family affectionately knew him as ‘Bertie’. The first few years of his childhood were spent fairly quietly, and...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 1hr 24mins) Charlotte Mary Mew was born on 15th November, 1869 in London to professional parents her father was responsible for the design of Hampstead Town Hall. Charlotte, one of seven children; three of whom died in early childhood, was educated at Lucy...
Read by Tim Graham & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 48mins) Featuring poems by William Shakespeare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jean Graham, Henry Williams Baker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lucretia Maria Davidson & others. This volume of poetry brings together poems throughout history with very special women. The relationship with our Mother is one of...
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...
Refusing to believe that his son is dead, Judge Mathew Deacon travels across the Atlantic to Cambridge to search for evidence of his son’s fate. However when his enquiries take him to the isolated homestead of the Northcotts, he discovers the real circumstances behind his son’s sudden disappearance – and the...
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...
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 Patricia Rodriguez & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 2hrs 25mins) Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in 1830 in Amherst Massachusetts. Rightly regarded as a major American poet, her life was sheltered, introverted, and reclusive. Despite writing over 1800 poems, only a dozen or so were published during her lifetime. Her...
Read by Nigel Planer, Richard Mitchley & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 9mins) Featuring poems by Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, WS Landor & others. The Romantics – Volume 1. Romanticism was a new movement in philosophy and the arts that began in the late 18th century when major political events shook the...