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Read by Ghizela Rowe (Abridged: 12mins) A WINTER’S TALE is set in Sicilia where the King, Leontes, is enjoying a visit by his friend the King of Bohemia. When he wants to leave, he tries to persuade him unsuccessfully to stay. Leontes then decides to ask his wife to try...
The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour. Damon Runyon is acknowledged as one of the great writers to come out of twentieth century America. Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named, and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and...
The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour. Damon Runyon is acknowledged as one of the great writers to come out of twentieth century America. Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named, and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and...
The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour. Damon Runyon is acknowledged as one of the great writers to come out of twentieth century America. Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named, and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and...
Read by Ghizela Rowe (Abridged: 13mins) TWELFTH NIGHT is regarded as one of Shakespeare’s best loved plays and features heavily the themes of cross dressing and mistaken identity to great comic effect. Set in Illyria on the Adriatic sea it involves Lady Olivia who due to the bereavement of her...
Read by Ghizela Rowe (Abridged: 11mins) THE TEMPEST has the ingredients of a cracking good story – magic, power and love, that kick up a storm. The magician Prospero and his daughter Miranda are banished by his jealous brother Antonio with the help of Alonso, the king of Naples. Prospero...
Read by Gideon Wagner (Abridged: 16mins) MACBETH. This tragedy of blood, deceit and betrayal is one of the most famous of Shakespeare’s works and regularly performed in theatres around the world. This performance by a distinguished cast that includes Anthony Quayle, Ian Holm, Alec McCowen and Stanley Holloway ensures that...
Read by Ghizela Rowe (Abridged: 17mins) OTHELLO is principally a story of jealousy and its destructive power. Othello is a courageous general in Venice and unusually for Shakespeare, a Moor with a black complexion. Although aware that he is a jealous character and even though he truly loves the fair...
Read by Brian Holland Rose (Abridged: 8mins) AS YOU LIKE IT is one of Shakespeare’s comedies featuring women dressed as men, brothers reconciling and wrongs put to right. The fair Rosalind falls in love with the strong Orlando and Rosalind’s companion to Orlando’s brother. Told here as a fairy tale,...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 29mins) Timon Of Athens. This Shakespeare play is often regarded as the most difficult and obscure of all his plays and certainly his tragedies. Our version is a very simplified form that focuses on the story of the play itself and does not use any...