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Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) Robert Southey was born on the 12th of August 1774 in Bristol. A poet of the Romantic school and one of the "Lake Poets". Although his fame has been eclipsed by that of his friends William Wordsworth and...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 21mins) This now seminal collection of sixty-three poems was originally self-published by Housman in 1896 after rejections from publishers. None saw its potential. Housman, it is said, originally wanted to name the book, The Poems of Terence Hearsay, referring to...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 30mins) Featuring poems by Sir Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, John Donne & others. Queen Elizabeth the First reigned from 1558 until 1603 and this first Elizabethan age is seen as a golden age not only of commerce,...
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, Jake Urry & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 58mins) William Cowper was born 26th November 1731 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. Traumatically he and his brother, John, were the only survivors, out of seven, to survive infancy. His mother died when he was six. His education, after several temporary schools,...
Read by Geoff McGivern (Unabridged: 1hr 43mins) Montague Rhodes James, the greatest English writer of ghost stories, was born in 1862 at Goodnestone Parsonage in Kent, where his father was Curate, and spent most of his boyhood at Livermere, near Bury St Edmunds in East Anglia, where his father had...
Read by Jake Urry & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 27mins) Henry Woodd Nevinson was born on October 11th, 1856. Nevinson was schooled at Shrewsbury School and at Christ Church, Oxford. John Ruskin influenced his time at Oxford. Fascinated by German Culture he spent some time at Jena before publishing, in...
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) 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 4mins) John Milton was born in Bread Street, London, on December 9th, 1608. His early years were privately tutored before gaining a place at St Paul’s School and in 1625 he matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge, earning a BA...