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Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 14mins) Featuring poems by Edgar Allan Poe, John Keats, A E Housman & 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 Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 48mins) Edward Page Mitchell was born in Bath, Maine on 24th March 1852 into a wealthy family. When he was eight the family moved to a house on New York’s famed Fifth Avenue. In 1863 he witnessed the Draft Riots...
Poetry and prose together from literary greats. Read by Ghizela Rowe, Eve Karpf & Shyama Perara (Unabridged: 2hrs 14min) Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. An author’s ideas...
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 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 David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 43mins) Gibran Khalil Gibran was born on 6th January 1883 in the village of Bsharri, Beirut Vilayet, then part of the Ottoman Empire His mother took him and his siblings to the United States in 1895 where he was enrolled into a Boston school...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 17mins) Featuring poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Percy Bysshe Shelley & 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...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 57mins) Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 22mins) Featuring poems by Wilfred Owen, William Wordsworth, Ford Madox Ford, Andrew Marvell & 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 Charlton Heston (Unabridged: 47mins) Charlton Heston reprises his film role as Christopher Leiningen, a cold and remote plantation boss in South America. He is joined by a widow, Joanna, who has agreed to marry him. However, Leiningen rejects her, and so the following week she will return to the...