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Some of histories greatest love stories, happy, sad or both. Read by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker & Eric Meyers (Unabridged: 12hrs 59mins) Featuring stories by Anton Chekhov, Khalil Gibran, Ivan Turgenev, Katherine Mansfield, Amy Levy, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe & more. Love. Perhaps the one word solution for everything. An emotion, a state...
Volume 4 - Most famous for his tales of crimes and deduction, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle also had a passion for suspense, the supernatural and the macabre as demonstrated in this collection of gothic short stories. The stories featured in this volume include: The Leather Funnel, The Beetle Hunter, The...
"History is an account not of what actually happened, but of what people think happened" - Queen Victoria. Marie Tussaud was a remarkable woman. She escaped the guillotine and survived the horrors of the French revolution. She toured the towns of Britain for thirty three hard years with her travelling...
Read by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker & Mark Rice-Oxley (Unabridged: 2hrs 48min) Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev was born on 21st August in Oryol, Russia to a middle-class family of Polish, Ukranian and Finnish ancestry. He studied law in Moscow before working as a police-court reporter for a daily newspaper. His literary...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Eric Meyers & Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 3hrs 31mins) Featuring stories by HP Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, MR James & more. An urban myth is often quoted that you are never further than six feet from a rat in any built-up area. The true figure is nearer one...
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...
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...
Explore suicide stories and suicidal characters in this deep psychological collection. Read by Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow & Mark Rice-Oxley (Unabridged: 15hrs 19mins) Featuring stories by Guy de Maupassant, Fyodor Dostovesky, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Victor Hugo, O Henry, Mary Shelley, Rabindranath Tagore, Honore De Balzac, Thomas Hardy,...
(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...