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Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 14mins) Featuring poems by Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Edward Lear, Gerald Manley Hopkins & others. Victorian Poetry – Volume 2 - An Introduction. Victoria’s reign was long and presided over the restless expansion of the British Empire and reams of creative...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr) Featuring poems by Anne Bronte, Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Rainer Maria Rilke & others. Death is a subject that few of us talk about, but many think about and more than a few of us dread. Whether it...
Read by Stella Gonet, David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe, Tim Graham & Alex Jennings (Unabridged: 1hr) Featuring poems by William Shakespeare, John Keats, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron & others. "If music be the food of love, play on" was one of Shakespeare's finest lines. If music is food, then...
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 Eve Karpf & Liza Ross (Unabridged 1hr 20mins) The art of writing a short story can be barely noticed by a reader such is the quality with which they are usually written. It is a difficult trade, an unforgiving discipline but for those who master it the rewards...
(Unabridged: 41mins) Elizabeth Barrett Moulton Barrett was born on 6 March 1806, in Coxhoe Hall, County Durham, the eldest of twelve children. Family wealth was derived from sugar plantations manned by slaves in Jamaica and enabling them to also purchase a 500 acre estate in Herefordshire. This wealth allowed her...
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,...
(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...
(Unabridged: 54mins) Edith Nesbit is more famously known as a writer of children’s stories and ghost stories some of which are available in other volumes. But in this volume we explore her poetry. Born in 1858 in Kennington, then part of Surrey and now London. Her early life was one...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Alex Jennings & David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 1hr 7mins) Featuring poems by Sir Walter Raleigh, George Herbert, Michael Drayton, Thomas Carew, Katherine Phillips, Edmund Spenser & others. For our Renaissance Poets we start with the coming to the throne of Henry 8th in 1519. From then until...