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Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 17mins) Featuring poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Smith & 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...
Sad stories that can foster empathy, encourage gratitude and reevaluate ourselves. Read by Jim Norton, Laurel Lefkow & Elliot Fitzpatrick (Unabridged: 20hrs 12mins) Featuring stories by James Joyce, Nikolai Gogol, Katherine Mansfield, Stephen Crane, Leo Tolstoy, Joseph Conrad, Sherwood Anderson, Anton Chekhov, D H Lawrence, Willa Cather, O Henry, Ivan...
Read by Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 1hr 15mins) Edgar Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts on 19th January 1809. His father abandoned his family the following year and within a year his mother had died leaving him an orphan. He was taken in by the Allan family but never formally adopted...
Read by Stephen Hogan (Unabridged: 1hr) Rosa Mulholland was born in Belfast on 19th March 1841. She originally wished to become a painter but turned to literary pursuits and attempted to publish her first book at 15. Charles Dickens, who took an early interest in her work, did much to...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Mark Rice-Oxley & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 51mins) 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 later use of American Gothic and dark romanticism in his writing. He was a mere four...
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...
Part 1 For many Christians the New Testament forms the basis of our more modern view of Christianity. But the Old Testament has much to offer both in which of its parts are accepted by which branch of the Church but, more obviously, many of the stories themselves. Whether you...
(Unabridged: 54mins) William Blake is now considered one of the giants of poetry. During his life, and for many years after, he was thought of as mad. His wide ranging skills not only encompassed poetry but bestrode the visual arts too, with paintings and printmaking. Unfortunately Blake could never fit...
(Unabridged: 1hr 9mins) This poet of Victorian times was held in awe for his magnificent works, including "In Memoriam", "Morte D'Arthur", and "Charge of the Light Brigade". His language and command of vocabulary seem particularly in keeping with the grand sweep of Victorian ambition. Many selections are asembled here and...
Read by Darrell Joe (Unabridged: 56mins) Alice Ruth Moore was born on 19th July 1875 in New Orleans where she was part of the multi-racial Creole community. She was the first generation seemingly born free after the Civil War and unusually for the times, obtained a university education which led...