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(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 Fiona MacKinnon (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) The name L T Meade, a pseudonym for Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith, rarely brings a sign of recognition. Although she wrote mainly for young girls she also wrote across many genres including sensational, religious, historical, adventure and romances. In all, her credits add...
Read by Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 49mins) John Griffith Chaney was born on January 12th, 1876 in San Francisco. His father, William Chaney, was living with Flora Wellman when she became pregnant. Chaney insisted she have an abortion. Flora's response was to turn a gun on herself. Although her wounds were not...
Read by Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 59mins) Margaret Oliphant Wilson was born on 4th April 1828 in East Lothian in Scotland but spent her childhood in Midlothian, Glasgow and Liverpool. She wrote from a young age and in 1849 had her first novel about the Scottish Free Church movement, a cause...
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...
Read by Mark Rice-Oxley (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller was born on 10th November 1759, in Marbach, Württemberg, the sole son of six children, into a very religious family. During his childhood his father was away, engaged in the Seven Years War and contact was sporadic until with the...
Read by David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 54mins) Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on 29th January 1860 in Taganrog, on the south coast of Russia. His family life was difficult; his father was strict and over-bearing but his mother was a passionate story-teller, a subject Chekhov warmed to. As he later said;...
Richard Mitchley, John Michael MacDonald & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 48mins) Mankind has many marks upon its name, many tragedies of its own making. The subjugating of other people, which still continues to this day, is perhaps its greatest stain. Men, women and children who are bought sold, used and...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 40mins) Featuring poems by John Keats, Lord Byron, William Shakespeare & others. I should be whispering this because Halloween is almost upon us. A time of Witches, Ghouls and Hauntings and all kinds of scary things that come out the evening before All...
(Unabridged: 39mins) December - The 12th month and closing month in the Gregorian calendar. Winter is upon the land and the poets including such as Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Shakespeare and Stevenson reflect their views and thoughts. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. Tracklist - December - An Introduction;...