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Read by Emma Parker & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 5mins) Many people dream of being a fly on the wall or even better a companion and friend to the great artists of the day. We cannot offer you quite that but we can take you on a walk through parts...
Read by Jacqueline Pearce (Unabridged: 4hr 21min) The actress Jacqueline Pearce is best known to television audiences as the villainous Servalan from the fondly remembered Blake’s Seven (BBC 1978-1981). But her career has taken her from RADA to Hollywood, via starring roles in international comedy films, Hammer Horror, BBC Shakespeare,...
Read by Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 34mins) Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on March 13th, 1884. His father was an Anglican clergyman which involved postings abroad. Walpole’s early educated was by a Governess until, in 1893, his parents decided he needed a better education...
Read by David Shaw-Parker & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 28mins) Algernon Blackwood was born on 14th March 1869 in Shooter’s Hill, South East London, to a religious middle-class family. His mother was a widowed Duchess and his father was a Post Office administrator. Blackwood was interested in the paranormal and the...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 38mins) Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born on the 1st April 1875 in Greenwich, London. Leaving school at 12 because of truancy, by the age of fifteen he had experience; selling newspapers, as a worker in a rubber factory, as...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 10mins) William Wymark Jacobs was born on 8th September 1863 in Wapping, East London. He was educated at a private school and then Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution, now part of the University of London. In 1879, Jacobs began work...
12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 TopicRead by Eve Karpf, Jake Urry(Unabridged: 43mins)Featuring stories by William Blake, Robert Browning, Christina Georgina Rossetti, John Keats, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Gordon Byron, Charlotte Smith, A E Housman, John Dryden, John Clare, Percy Bysshe Shelley & many more‘A dime a dozen’ as known...
Starring Orson Welles Originally Written by James Norman Hall (Unabridged: 42mins) Captain Bligh leaves London for Tahiti in charge of his crew on the Bounty. At sea he shows himself to be a brutal tyrant and cruel whilst enforcing discipline which includes flogging the men, cutting rations and over zealously working...
Read by Martin Jarvis (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Dickens' exuberant novel charts the rise of its young hero Nicholas Nickleby, who progresses from an impoverished youngster gladly accepting his uncle's offer of help, to an assured businessman capable of thwarting villainous plans. The book unfolds in a series of vivid scenes,...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 93 hours 12mins) These British Isles, moored across from mainland Europe, are more often seen as a world unto themselves. Restless and creative, they often warred amongst themselves until they began a global push to forge a World Empire of...