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(Abridged: 2hrs 57mins) The Life and Music of George Gershwin by Ean Wood. Gershwin’s musical genius is undeniable and this book explores both the man and his works with extensive material from the Gershwin ‘s family archive, exclusive interviews with musicians and . This fresh account is further livened by...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 15mins) Featuring poems by Hafiz, Sara Teasdale, William Shakespeare & others. Love. What is love? The question is asked by each of us but the answer remains elusive. Dictionaries summon up many words but none fulfill. Love itself is often ethereal, felt but only...
The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour. Damon Runyon is acknowledged as one of the great writers to come out of twentieth century America. Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named, and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 19mins) Featuring poems by Mirabai, D H Lawrence, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Herrick & 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...
Starring Henry Hull Originally Written by Herman Melville (Unabridged: 50mins) Moby Dick is a powerful classic story of man's obsession and revengeful nature written by Herman Melville. Captain Ahab, stomps around his ship on a peg leg that was caused by a huge whale called Moby Dick. Ahab is so...
Starring Orson Welles Originally Written by James Norman Hall (Unabridged: 42mins) Captain Bligh leaves London for Tahiti in charge of his crew on the Bounty. At sea he shows himself to be a brutal tyrant and cruel whilst enforcing discipline which includes flogging the men, cutting rations and over zealously working...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 26mins) Featuring poems by Rudyard Kiping, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Edward Thomas & 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 hereby...
Starring John Wayne (Unabridged: 54mins) In our Hollywood Stage presentation John Wayne reprises his role as Tom Dunston and his journey west to build a cattle empire. He adopts a young boy, Matthew, orphaned by an Indian raid. Returning from the Civil War Mathew helps his father on a massive cattle...
Read by Tim Graham & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 1min) Featuring poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southwell, Robert Herrick, WB Yeats, John Milton, Rudyard Kipling & others. Christmas, they say, comes but once a year. In these days it seems to also last for much of that year but...
Read by Laurel Lefkow, Eric Meyers & Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 2hrs 9mins) Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born on 24th June 1842 at Horse Cave Creek in Meigs County, Ohio. His parents were poor but they introduced him to literature at an early age, instilling in him a deep appreciation of...