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Everything's Re-Made with Shovel and Spade: Playing Shakespeare with Simon Russe…

In The Cameron Mackintosh Inaugural Lecture Series

Read by Simon Russell Beale and Libby Purves


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Agnes Grey (Version 3)

Read by Libby Gohn


Anne Brontë


Anne Bronte's semi-autobiographic novel about Agnes Grey, a young woman who becomes a governess to support her family, but finds her new car…

Emily Dickinson on Death

Read by Libby Gohn


Emily Dickinson


Emily Dickinson is one of the most intriguing of American poets. Since she grew increasingly reclusive, very few of her poems were published…

Dress Design: An Account of Costume for Artists and Dressmakers

Read by Libby Gohn


Talbot Hughes


Explanations of Western European trends in men and women's fashion from prehistoric times to the Victorian Era. (Summary by Libby Gohn)

Sappho: A New Rendering

Read by Libby Gohn


Sappho


Sappho lived in the Greek-speaking Aeolian islands off the coast of Turkey. She is one of the very few female poets from antiquity. Although…

Lancelot, or The Knight of the Cart

Read by Libby Gohn


Chrétien De Troyes


This medieval French romance is the oldest surviving work about Lancelot. When Queen Guinevere is abducted by Meleagrant, Lancelot must face…

A Group of Noble Dames

Read by Libby Gohn


Thomas Hardy


The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of…

Wessex Poems

Read by Libby Gohn


Thomas Hardy


A collection of poetry by Thomas Hardy, some of which were previously published or adapted into his prose works. - Summary by Libby Gohn

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man (version 3)

Read by Maggie Russell


Patanjali


This is Charles Johnston's translation of and commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Johnston's interpretation of this seminal yogic te…

The Story Of A Needle

Read by Susan Russell


Charlotte Maria Tucker (A. L. O. E.) and Charlotte Maria Tucker


A story told, through the viewpoint of a sewing needle, about family life and siblings. The narration from the needle tells how he was made …

Come, Let Me Whisper

Read by Russell L. Burt


Russell L. Burt


Macabre fiction. Horror fiction. Dark fiction. Whatever you choose to call it, that is what is contained within this collection of short sto…

Milton: a Poem

Read by Brian Russell Graham


William Blake


Milton: a Poem is an epic poem by William Blake, written and illustrated between 1804 and 1810. Its hero is John Milton, who returns from he…

A Brief Conversation with My Hair

Read by Russell Bradbury-Carlin


Russell Bradbury-Carlin


A Brief Conversation with My Hair is a collection of short literary humor pieces that have been previously featured on such websites at McSw…

Revelations

Read by Russell L. Burt


Russell L. Burt


Bridging the gap between psychological and supernatural horror, Revelations is the story of Jamie Shetter, a psychiatrist on the brink of ex…

Huntingtower

Read by Simon Evers


John Buchan


Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer, plans a walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English p…

The Grand Babylon Hotel

Read by Anna Simon


Arnold Bennett


Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi-millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds …

A Silent Witness

Read by Anna Simon


R. Austin Freeman


In this detective novel, the young doctor Humphrey Jardine stumbles upon a corpse during a walk near Hampstead Heath in the middle of the ni…

Patricia Brent, spinster

Read by Anna Simon


Herbert George Jenkins


A romantic comedy, written in 1918, but with a modern feel to it. Patricia Brent one day overhears two fellow-boarders pitying her because s…

Lady Anna

Read by Simon Evers


Anthony Trollope


When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - `This is the sort of thing the readi…

Malcolm Sage, Detective

Read by Anna Simon


Herbert George Jenkins


A collection of short stories that chronicles the first year of the Malcolm Sage Detective Bureau.Sequel or companion story of John Dene of …

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