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Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 17mins) Featuring poems by Louisa May Alcott, John Keats, Hafiz, Victor Hugo & 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 Jake Urry & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 31mins) Mary Cholmondeley was born in Hodnet near Market Drayton in Shropshire on June 8th 1859, the third of eight children. Her father was appointed rector in 1874 in succession to his father. Much of the first 30 years of her life...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 16mins) Alfred Tennyson was born on August 6th, 1809, in Somersby, Lincolnshire, the fourth of twelve children. Most of Tennyson's early education was under the direction of his father, although he did spend four unhappy years at a nearby...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gordon Kennedy (Unabridged: 1hr 11mins) Night. The day has gone. Departed. And the dark embrace, the inky shadows of night descend. For many a time to unwind and slumber. For some a nagging doubt that all is not well. That some primeval and primordial...
Read by Ghizela Rowe, Jake Urry & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 3mins) Ford Madox Ford was born Ford Hermann Hueffer on 17th December 1873 in Wimbledon, London, England. Today he is best known for one book, ‘The Good Soldier’, which is regularly held to be one of the 100 greatest novels...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 21mins) Featuring poems by John Milton, William Blake, Rainer Maria Rilke, Dante Alighieri & others. It is often said that two things are unavoidable; Death and Taxes. Certainly the latter is a common thorn in adult life but as to the...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 12mins) Featuring poems by William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Thomas Hardy, Percy Bysshe Shelley & more. When the wind blows and the rain lashes our emotions can become dulled and our thoughts depressed but sometimes these swirling conditions can excite...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 23mins) Featuring poems by Sara Teasdale, Anne Bronte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Hardy, Radclyffe Hall & more. Night. The day has gone. Departed. And the dark embrace, the inky shadows of night descend. For many a time...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 4mins) James Elroy Flecker was born on 5th November 1884, in Lewisham, London. Flecker does not seem to have enjoyed academic study and achieved only a Third-Class Honours in Greats in 1906. This did not set him up for a...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 56mins) Hugh John Lofting was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire on January 14th, 1886 to English and Irish parents. Lofting was initially educated at Mount St Mary’s College in Spinkhill, Derbyshire, a Jesuit boarding school from the age of eight. By 1905 at...