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The Welsh And Their Literature
Read by Eric Metzler
George Borrow
Originally an article in the US Edition of the London Quarterly Review, George Borrow offers a sweeping history of Welsh literature, beginni…
The Autobiography of an Electron
Read by Laura Victoria
Charles R. Gibson
"While many scientific men now understand our place in the universe, we electrons are anxious that every person should know the very im…
The Wind in the Willows (version 3)
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
Kenneth Grahame
The classic story of how Rat, Mole, and the other river-bankers saved Toad from his excesses. This book has it all: excitement, sentiment, d…
In the Net of the Stars
Read by Nemo
F. S. Flint
English author Frank Stuart Flint was a prominent poet in the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and T E. Hulme. Flint abandoned school…
Schubert And His Works
Read by David Wales
Herbert Francis Peyser
This is a short introduction to Franz Schubert’s life and works. “…to give the casual radio listener a slight idea of Schubert’s inundating…
Heroes Every Child Should Know
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Hamilton Wright Mabie
The endeavour has been made in this volume to bring together the heroic men of different races, periods and types; and in the selection of m…
To The Lighthouse
Read by Cori Samuel
Virginia Woolf
The Ramsey family, with house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice. The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book abou…
Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism
Read by Jim Locke
John Middleton Murry
Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…
Codename Vengeance
Read by David Wright
David Wright
When an American pilot on loan to the RAF shoots down three British spitfires in his own squadron, and then crash-lands at a German airbase …
Kidnapped
Read by Mark F. Smith
Robert Louis Stevenson
David Balfour, a lad of seventeen and newly orphaned, is directed to go and live with his rich uncle, the master of the estate of Shaws in t…
Days With Sir Roger de Coverley
Read by Elijah Fisher
Joseph Addison
The author Sir Richard Steele, who was one of the writers for The Spectator, gets the opportunity to spend a month in Sir Roger de Coverley'…
WRIGHTALES Fairy Tales for Grown Ups
Read by Lisa Wright
Lisa Wright
Wrightales are original fairy tales for grownups who have never quite grown up written and read by Lisa Wright. Though they follow the conve…
David Blaize
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E. F. Benson
Written during World War I but set before the war, David Blaize is a coming-of-age story set in an all-boys boarding school. We follow David…
The Journal of a Disappointed Man
Read by Adam Whybray
W. N. P. Barbellion
The journal of British naturalist Bruce Frederick Cummings, spanning from his early childhood through to his early death from complications …
White April
Read by Laurie Banza
Harold Vinal
In five section parts, Golden Windows, Sonnets for Weeping, Of Mariners, White Glamour, and Overtones, Harold Vinal writes about deep feeli…
The Human Machine
Read by Ruth Golding
Arnold Bennett
Bennett asks us to consider our brains as the most wonderful machine, a machine which is the only thing in this world that we can control. A…
Modern Essays
Read by David Wales
Christopher Morley
Thirty three essays by more or less well-known authors of Britain, the United States, and Canada, each fronted by an introductory paragraph.…
In the Wilderness (Version 2)
Read by Jessica Zdanowicz
Charles Dudley Warner
Warner’s main theme is how small and often-ridiculous the human being is when exploring in the wilderness. Warner’s love of nature and his c…
Who Did It?
Read by Phil Benson
Nat Gould
Following the dissolution of the New South Wales government, Henry Bryce is ready to take on the Labour Party for the seat of Balmain East. …