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Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 16mins) John Clare was born on 13th July, 1793 in Helpston, a few miles north of Peterborough. Schooled only until the age of 12 his early career was that of agricultural labourer, pot boy, gardener and lime burner. His...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Jake Urry & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 3mins) Featuring stories by Saki, D.H. Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling & others. The human race prides itself on being the most organised of animals. We manage the fate of all other species. All other animals bow to our control or...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Patrick Barlow (Unabridged: 2hrs 1min) Featuring stories by Saki, Bram Stoker, H.P. Lovecraft & others. The human race prides itself on being the most organised of animals. We manage the fate of all other species. All other animals bow to our control or...
(Unabridged: 1hr 35mins) Alice Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There is a marvellous piece of children's literature by Lewis Carroll. It is also marvellous entertainment for adults. The sequel to the yet more famous Alice in Wonderland makes no reference to the earlier work yet displays an...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 3mins) William Blake was born on 28th November 1757 in London to parents of modest income that could only afford a basic education of reading and writing although he did attend a drawing school for a short time. His artistic skill...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 55mins) Featuring poems by William Wordsworth, William Blake, Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Rudyard Kipling & others. London, A City In Words - Every country has its capital, its centre for governance and culture. Only a few capitals can lay...
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...
Read by Eve Karpf & Liza Ross (Unabridged: 1hr 20mins) The art of writing a short story can be barely noticed by a reader or listener - such is the quality with which they are usually written. It is a difficult trade, an unforgiving discipline, but for those who master...
Read by Eve Karpf (Unabridged: 1hr 10mins) Featuring poems by Rupert Brooke, AE Housman, Wilfred Owen, GK Chesterton, William Henry Davies & others. As a poetical movement Georgian Poetry is easy to classify. It began naturally enough in 1910 when George V ascended to the throne of England. Edward Marsh,...
Read by David-Shaw Parker (Unabridged: 1hr 25mins) Mary Diana Dods was born at some point in 1790. Much of the details of her life are unknown. Accounts propose that she was one of the illegitimate daughters of George Douglas, the sixteenth Earl of Morton and that she and her older...