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A Man from the North
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
Richard Larch, a young man from the north of England, arrives in London to seek his fortune. By day he works as a clerk in an office but has…
Lord Kitchener
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
“The paradox of all this part of his life lies in this--that, destined as he was to be the greatest enemy of Mahomedanism, he was quite exce…
Inspector Thorn The Lucas Testament ( Michael Robson BBC 1976)
A play for radio by Michael Robson With Robert Lang, Dulcie Gray, Jeffrey Segal and Steve Hodson Mysteriously obstructed while researching h…
The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
Read by Rob Marland
Oscar Wilde
Wilde's short story about an attempt to uncover the identity of Mr. W. H., the dedicatee of Shakespeare's sonnets, was first published in Bl…
The Rocket
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Arthur Wing Pinero
Gentlemen out away from London, looking for wives. "I'm going to settle down, hearthrug and slippers and all that sort of thing." …
Moya O' Shea Theo
SANWAL
Saturday Night Theatre: Theo 28.12.95 Made in Germany in 1908, a rare cinnamon plush bear with boot button eyes, still with the Steiff butto…
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 13)
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
This chapter traces the history of the Glorious Revolution in Scotland, including the reaction of the country's religious parties, the insta…
Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 4 (1897-1898)
Read by Rob Marland
Oscar Wilde
This fourth collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes the letters Wilde wrote while living in Berneval, in the months after h…
The Gods and Mr Perrin
Read by Simon Evers
Hugh Walpole
The book is probably better known under the title ‘Mr Perrin and Mr Traill’, later made into a well-known film in 1948. Perrin and Traill ar…
The Lord of the Isles
Read by Nathan
Sir Walter Scott
In stunning narrative poetry, the story begins during the time when Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick has been hunted out of Scotland into exile…
Heather and Snow
Read by Hannah Mary
George MacDonald
Set in the barren lowlands of Scotland with a small cast of characters, both lives and landscape are vividly portrayed and masterfully inter…
War Impressions: Being a Record in Colour
Read by Phil Benson
Mortimer Menpes
A personal account of the second Boer War by Australian expatriate artist Mortimer Menpes. Menpes travelled to South Africa as a corresponde…
A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson’s wit and tongue-in-cheek expressions make this record of the economy, education and politicks [sic] of remote settlements an…
John MacNab
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John Buchan
Sir Edward Leithen and his friends Lord Lamancha, Palliser-Yeates, and Archie Roylance are bored of life. After Leithen's doctor recommends …
Gravenhurst, or Thoughts on Good and Evil
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William Henry Smith
In which an English country gentlemen records his and his friends' conversational observations on misery and happiness, leaning ultimately o…
