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Writers In Britain: Poets of the First World War
Author: Nicola Barber, Patrick Lee-Browne
Format: MP3 CD
Author Nicola Barber, Patrick Lee-Browne
Narrator John Gibbens
Duration 58m
Focusing on five major war poets: Ivor Gurney, Wilfrid Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegried Sassoon and Edward Thomas, this audiobook examines the experiences of the soldiers who found artistic expression in their poetry for the horrors of warfare. An informative introduction to the poets of the First World War.
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Author: Various
Format: Stream / Download
Author Various
Narrator Cliff Michelmore
Duration 3h 3m
A sensitive and enlightening collection of war poetry. Released to celebrate the 60th anniversaries of both VE and VJ days, this collection of powerful and moving poetry, read by a star cast of readers including Spike Milligan and Phil Collins, is a feast of a listen. Containing over 100 poems, it charts the war from beginning to end, through the e...
View BookAuthor: Pam Ayres
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Author Pam Ayres
Narrator The Author
Duration 1h 55m
Writer, poet, entertainer and broadcaster, Pam Ayres has been delighting the nation with her mix of comic poetry, prose and droll observations on life for more than twenty years. This live recording of Pam's overwhelmingly popular stage show is the entertainer at her best. Pam Ayres' stage show has been a sell-out success throughout the world. With...
View BookAlexander Pope: Selected Poetry
Author: Alexander Pope
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Author Alexander Pope
Narrator Peter Beton
Duration 6h 18m
As well as selections from Pope's shorter poems and epistles, this audiobook includes the full texts of 'An Essay on Criticism', 'The Rape of the Lock' and 'Eloisa to Abelaird', and excerpts from 'The Dunciad', 'An Essay on Man' and his translations of the 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey'.
View BookJudi Dench & Michael Williams: With Great Pleasure
Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Judi Dench, Michael Williams
Duration 2h 22m
In this enchanting pair of programmes from 1991 and 1996, Dame Judi Dench and husband Michael Williams shared an eclectic selection of pieces that they loved, admired or simply found entertaining. 'With Great Pleasure' saw Judi Dench and Michael Williams joined by fellow actor Alec McCowen to read some of the literature that shaped their lives. Amo...
View BookSir Gawain and the Green Knight
Author: Benedict Flynn
Format: MP3 CD
Author Benedict Flynn
Narrator Jasper Britton
Duration 2h 14m
A mysterious knight all in green arrives at King Arthur's court and issues a bizarre challenge. Gawain answers the knight - but at what cost? This new translation keeps all the poetic power of the original's extraordinary alliteration. In doing so it brings the saga to life, and in a manner that demands to be heard. One of the greatest stories of E...
View BookThe Great Poets: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Format: MP3 CD
Author Gerard Manley Hopkins
Narrator Jeremy Northam
Duration 1h 2m
A collection of the best-known poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889). One of the Victorian era's greatest writers, Hopkins' reputation has continued to grow since his death. This anthology of works by one of poetry's most daring innovators will undoubtedly become a best-seller. The collection includes 'The Windhover', 'The Caged Skylark', 'Car...
View BookAuthor: Various
Format: MP3 CD
Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 30m
Moved by the plight of the Afghan refugees, actress Pippa Haywood contacted leading names in the Arts and asked them to choose a poem in response to September 11th and the ensuing Afghan crisis. Over 80 diverse poems were chosen, including: 'The Trees' by Philip Larkin; 'Dulce et Decorum Est' by Wilfred Owen, 'All You Who Sleep Tonight' by Vikram S...
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 2m
A delightful collection from around the British Isles including Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold, Leisure by W. H Davis and To Autumn by John Keats. Featuring classic recordings by Richard Burton, Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson.
View BookAuthor: Thomas Hardy
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Author Thomas Hardy
Narrator Anthony Richardson
Duration 1h 40m
A collection of Thomas Hardy's poems, including 'The Man He Killed', 'The Darkling Thrush' and 'The Subalterns'.
View BookAuthor: Tyler Knott Gregson
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Author Tyler Knott Gregson
Narrator The Author
Duration 56m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Chasers Of The Light, written and read by Tyler Knott Gregson. I would love to say that you make me weak at the knees, but to be quite upfront and completely truthful, you make my body forget it has knees at all. One day, while browsing an antique store in Helena, Montana, photogra...
View BookAuthor: Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Author Alfred Lord Tennyson
Narrator Joseph Millson
Duration 56m
Joseph Millson reads Alfred Lord Tennyson's 1855 dark and lyrical poem Maud in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the poet's birth in 2009. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the 'Classic Serial' slot on 26 July 2009 and repeated on 1 August 2009. A disturbed young man roams the windswept hills, haunted by his father's suicide and his moth...
View BookAuthor: Pam Ayres
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Author Pam Ayres
Narrator Pam Ayres
Duration 1h 56m
This recording is taken from four of writer, poet and broadcaster Pam Ayres''s live shows for her BBC Radio 4 series Ayres on the Air, and is packed with her usual mix of comic poetry, prose and droll observations on life. . Here, Pam can be heard delighting her public on such topics as holidays, families, ageing and country living. With sketches a...
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
SeriesVoices of Poetry, Book 1
Duration 20m
Hear rare recordings from some of the world's most-respected poets reading their own works: J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hoard; ee cummings, Prose Jottings; Archibald Macleish, The Old Man To The Lizard; Ted Hughes, Six Young Men; May Swenson, Naked In Borneo; Marilyn Hacker, The Dark Twin; Kenneth Patchen, 23rd Street Runs Into Heaven; Edith Sitwell, An Ol...
View BookThe New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse
Author: Christopher (editor) Ricks
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Author Christopher (editor) Ricks
Narrator Various
Duration 20h 57m
A great age of poetry speaks for itself in Christopher Ricks's celebrated anthology: the variety and power of Victorian verse, the innovation and creativity with which poets resisted the bad propensities of the era through which they lived. The great figures are of course strongly represented -Tennyson and Browning, Swinburne and Hopkins-but not so...
View BookAuthor: By Jane Ogborn Edited
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Author By Jane Ogborn Edited
Narrator Jan Boyd
Duration 1h 35m
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning are the three nineteenth-century poets explored in this collection.
View BookClassic Erotic Verse Classic Erotic Verse
Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 38m
A witty, bawdy, erotic but classic collection of poetry designed to celebrate the most sensual of human pleasures. Over the ages many poets have put pen to paper in celebration of that most raw and yet most beautiful of human instincts - erotic love. This anthology includes verse by Herrick, Marlowe, Jonson, Byron, Verlaine, Whitman, Yeats, Cumming...
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