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Written by Letitia Maclintock (Unabridged: 47mins) The Emerald Isle has produced some of the greatest writing ever to capture the world's imagination. In this volume we have three short fairy tales read by famed actress Siobhan McKenna that are perfect illustrations of the genre. In this compilation - 01...
(Unabridged: 1hr 58mins) The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel but it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and...
(Unabridged: 1hr 23mins) In this selection of some of Saki's best short stories, we enter a fictional world in which the Edwardian gently are pitched against the rude forces of nature and maiden aunts struggle unsuccessfully to contain the merciless antics of children in their charge. Saki is perhaps the...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 6mins) Charlotte Mary Mew was born on 15th November, 1869 in London to professional parents – her father was responsible for the design of Hampstead Town Hall. Charlotte, one of seven children; three of whom died in early childhood,...
American short story master Hawthorne gives us a gothic tale of love and jealousy with a scientific twist. Read by Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 1hr 12mins) Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on 4th July 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, a town synonymous with the earlier Salem Witch Trials. It was instrumental in Hawthorne’s...
Written & Read by Simon Inglis (Abridged: 2hrs 50mins) Simon Inglis was a sports fan with a mission. Fed up with being labelled an ‘anorak’, yet repeatedly led astray by the glimpse of a grandstand across a crowded city, in the late 1990s he travelled the world in search of...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Glyn Houston, Angharad Rees & Sian Phillips (Unabridged: 54mins) This proud nation with it’s long history; sometimes rough, hewn from bleak landscapes, sometimes gently soft from its comforting voices has produced a long succession of artists and poets. In the latter category Louis MacNeice most probably stands pre-eminent, his...
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...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 23mins) Featuring poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley, W B Yeats, Ambrose Bierce & 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 in this series we...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 5mins) Gustave Flaubert was born on 12th December 1821 in Rouen, in Normandy, France. A gifted child he began writing as early as eight. He was educated at the Lycée Pierre-Corneille in Rouen until 1840 and thence to Paris to study law, a city...