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Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 45mins) Featuring stories by Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Elizabeth Gaskell & others. At some point in our lives we believe that creak, that low moan, that whisper is something unnatural, beyond our comprehension. And in these stories our instincts are right. We...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 24mins) Featuring poems by Louisa May Alcott, John Keats, Hafiz, Victor Hugo & others. ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we...
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 Christopher Timothy (Abridged: 2hrs 48mins) H.G. Wells Biography
Read by Richard Mitchley, Gideon Wagner & William Dufris (Unabridged: 1hr 15mins) Featuring poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ambrose Bierce, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, James Whitcomb Riley & others. America. Land of the Free, Home of the Brave. Across its vast landscape a Nation was being built. ...
Read by Lia Williams (Abridged: 2hrs 55min) This novel depicts a mill owner, Robert, whose business is struggling and in turn rejects his attraction to an orphaned woman, Carolne, in favour of proposing to a rich landowner, Shirley. In Charlotte Bronte’s classic Shirley rejects him as she loves Robert’s poor...
Read by Adrian Lukis (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) From its opening amid the horrors of the French Revolution, to its unexpected ending on the shores of the English Channel, The Scarlet Pimpernel fizzes with excitement and wit. Dominating the action is the apparently limp-wristed fop, Sir Percy Blakeney, the most unlikely,...
Read by Maggie Ollerenshaw (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) There are stark differences between rich and poor in the Manchester of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel, Mary Barton. Factory owners such as Mr Carson, do not understand the anger of their poverty stricken workers, and care little for their welfare. For the mill-workers, employment...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 44mins) 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 Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 56mins) Howard Phillips Lovecraft is among the greatest American masters of fantasy and the supernatural. Born in 1890, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, his health was uncertain from childhood and he led a sheltered early life. His semi-invalidism enabled...