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Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 34mins) Featuring stories by Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf & Richard Gallienne. 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 are afraid. And...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 8mins) Wilfred Owen was born on 18th March 1893 at Plas Wilmot, near Oswestry in Shropshire, the eldest of four children Wilfred’s education was initially at the Birkenhead Institute and then later at Shrewsbury Technical school. His mothers strong Anglican views...
Read by Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 50mins) Charlotte Turner Smith was born on 4th May 1749 in London. Her early years were dominated by her mother’s early death and her father’s reckless spending. At age 15 she married Benjamin Smith in order to rid her father of his gambling debts. Charlotte...
Read by Connie Booth (Abridged: 2hrs 50mins) Little Women is constructed as a series of episodes which are almost complete stories in their own right. Incidents in the lives of the March sisters act as fables, each illustrating a moral point. In her novel, Louisa May Alcott describes her characters'...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 43mins) Featuring stories by Edgar Wallace, Katherine Mansfield & others. The short stories written during and about World War I are often over shadowed by the excellent verse of the War Poets. Yet the short story is perhaps their...
(Unabridged: 1hr 20mins) The gentler sex or the deadlier of the species. Between these two definitions of the female gender lies a collection of some of the most beautiful verse ever written. For much of history women have been seen rather than heard. In this volume poets of great depth and...
Read by Brian Holland-Rose (Abridged: 2hrs 26mins) This story of Santa Claus veers away slightly from the traditional stories of his beginnings. L. Frank Baum creates a world of fantasy that surrounds Santa Claus's life. Orphaned as an infant he is found by the nymph Necile, who raises Claus for...
(Unabridged: 38mins) March - The third month of the year in the Gregorian calendar brings with it the Spring Equinox and the promise of warmer days and shorter nights. Our selected poets including Swift, Yeats, Morris, Swinburne and Austin of course provide the words to match the mood. Among our...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 18mins) Featuring poems by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Alice Duer, Edgar Allan Poe, Frances E W Harper & 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...
Read by Bob Sessions (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Moby Dick is an epic work of the 19th century, not just in its length or its geographical vastness, but also in the way the main characters, Ahab and Ishmael, are presented to the reader. Ahab is, in true classical tradition, a larger-than-life,...