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Read by David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 56 mins) Netta Syrett was born Janet Syrett on 17th March 1865 in Ramsgate, Kent, one of 13 children. She was initially educated at home by her mother before those responsibilities passed to a German Governess and then, aged 11, Netta went to the North...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 15mins) 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...
Starring Greer Garson Originally Written by Arthur Wimperis (Unabridged: 47mins) Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as the ‘go to’ place for entertainment and has been for decades. When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than heaven Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays,...
Starring James Stewart Originally Written by Phillip Van Doren Stern (Unabridged: 53mins) Reprising his film role in this memorable classic James Stewart has a perfect life. A loving wife, Mary (Donna Reed), four young children, and his own business, which he inherited from his father. Facing a financial crisis one Christmas...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 15mins) 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 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 (Unabridged: 58mins) Montague Rhodes James is cited as perhaps the greatest English writer of ghost stories, an opinion few would disagree with. James was born on 1st August 1862 at Goodnestone Parsonage in Kent, where his father was Curate but at age 3 the family went...
Read by Eric Meyers (Unabridged: 51mins) Willa Sibert Cather was born on 7th December, 1873 on her grandmother's farm in the Back Creek Valley near Winchester, Virginia. After several years and moves the family eventually settled in Red Cloud, Nebraska and for the first time Cather could now attend school. In...
Read by Eric Meyers (Unabridged: 1hr 51mins) Herman Melville was born in New York City on 1st August 1819. At the age of 7 Melville contracted scarlet fever which permanently diminished his eyesight. Add this to a contemporary description of being "very backwards in speech and somewhat slow in comprehension"...
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...