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Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 27mins) If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man. After all, Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the foremost literary detective of any age. Add to this canon his stories of science fiction and horror, his...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 15mins) Featuring poems by Thomas Shadwell, Robert Southey, John Dryden, John Skelton, William Davenant & others. Volume 1 - The office of Poet Laureate is a high honour amongst poets. The Ancient Greeks had the first idea and their heroes and Poets...
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 & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 1min) William Morris was born in Walthamstow, London on 24th March 1834 and is regarded today as a foremost poet, writer, textile designer, artist and libertarian. Morris began to publish poetry and short stories in 1856 through the Oxford and...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 49mins) Charles Edward Montague was born in London on New Year’s Day, 1867 and educated at the City of London School and then Balliol College, Oxford. At university, Montague, a keen writer, wrote several literary reviews for the Manchester Guardian and...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 12mins) Adelaide Anne Procter was born on 30th October, 1825 at 25 Bedford Square in the Bloomsbury district of London. Her literary career began whilst still a teenager. Many of her poems were published by the great Charles Dickens...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 1min) The Clergyman and poet, Robert Herrick was born in Cheapside, in London in 1591. An exact date is not known though he was baptized on August 24th, the seventh child of Nicholas Herrick, a wealthy goldsmith. Some controversy...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 8mins) Alfred Edward Housman was born on 26 March 1859 in a small village near Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, the eldest of seven children. His mother died when he was 12 and his father remarried. Despite a good formal education...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 48mins) Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is regarded by many readers and literary critics to be THE major English novelist of the Victorian Age. He is remembered today as the author of a series of weighty novels which have been translated into...
Read by Eve Karpf, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 18mins) Food. One of the overpowering needs that we all hunger for. Whether to use as basic fuel or sophisticated tasting, food and its providers, its servers, its guests and our authors are here to converse, deliberate as courses are...