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02 - He Discusses the Ideal Husband

In The Genial Idiot

Read by Nigel Boydell


John Kendrick Bangs


John Kendrick Bangs once again takes us on a journey with the loveable, but somewhat self-opinionated and irritating Mr Idiot. (Summary by M…

Mordaunt Reeves Talks to Himself

In The Viaduct Murder

Read by Nigel Kerr


Ronald Knox


A badly battered corpse is found on the golf links. The first verdict was suicide; but four leisurely gentlemen staying at the country club …

Chapter VII. Wallenstein and Bernard of Weimar (1632-5) by A. W. Ward (part 1)

In The Cambridge Modern History. Volume 04, The Thirty Years' War

Read by Nigel Kerr


Various


The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…

1 - The Catastrophic Family

In Marge Askinforit

Read by Nigel Boydell


Barry Pain


A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain's character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfu…

Chapter 12: The Dark Ages

In The Road

Read by Nigel Kerr


Hilaire Belloc


"We are arrived at a chief turning-point in the history of the English highway. New instruments of locomotion, a greater volume of traf…

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