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The Glory of Ancient Greece, Hugh Griffith

The Glory of Ancient Greece

by Hugh Griffith

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The glory of Ancient Greece is all around us, even in the 21st century, because Greece wa...

Unabridged: 2 hr 26 min
Narrator: Benjamin Soames
Published: 08/31/2010
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Favourite Poems for Children, A.A. Milne, Anonymous, Charles Causley, Edward Lear, Hilaire Belloc, James Reeves, John Clare, John Keats, Kenneth Grahame, Laura Richards, Lewis Carroll, Oliver Herford, Robert Browning, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Sarah Catherine Marine, Th

Favourite Poems for Children

by A.A. Milne, Anonymous, ...

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Dance with a lobster, telephone an elephant or knock on a moonlit door – this ...

Unabridged: 1 hr 14 min
Narrator: Anton Lesser, Roy ...
Published: 08/31/2010
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The Story of the Bible, Peter Whitfield

The Story of the Bible

by Peter Whitfield

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History or myth? The word of God or the words of men? What is the Bible? This history, es...

Unabridged: 2 hr 38 min
Narrator: Oliver Ford Davies...
Published: 01/31/2011
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Pirates!, Roy McMillan

Pirates!

by Roy McMillan

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Which pirate incubated chickens in camel-dung? What would Blackbeard do if you didn&rsquo...

Unabridged: 2 hr 37 min
Narrator: Jasper Britton
Published: 05/31/2011
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Famous Heroes of the American West, William Roberts

Famous Heroes of the American Wes...

by William Roberts

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Famous Heroes of the American West is a lively account of the ‘Wild West’ and...

Unabridged: 2 hr 23 min
Narrator: Adam Sims
Published: 05/28/2012
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John Clare, John Clare

John Clare

by John Clare

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John Clare was the forgotten Romantic poet, until the late twentieth century. Known by hi...

Unabridged: 1 hr 1 min
The Great Poets
Narrator: David Shaw-Parker
Published: 07/29/2013
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Classic Poems for Boys, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Benjamin Zephaniah, Edward Lear, Felicia Dorothea Hemans, G.K. Chesterton, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hilaire Belloc, John Keats, Lewis Carroll, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Walter Scott, W

Classic Poems for Boys

by Alfred Lord Tennyson, B...

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Classic Poems for Boys comprises a delightfully varied set of poems for 5-10-year olds. F...

Unabridged: 1 hr 5 min
Narrator: Benjamin Soames, R...
Published: 07/02/2012
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Classic Poems for Girls, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Anonymous, Christina Rossetti, Christopher Marlowe, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Lear, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hilaire Belloc, Jane Taylor, John Keats, Laura Richards, Lewis Carroll, Louisa May Alcott, Mary Howitt, Ol

Classic Poems for Girls

by Alfred Lord Tennyson, A...

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Classic Poems for Girls is a collection of over 25 funny, whimsical and moving poems for ...

Unabridged: 1 hr 4 min
Narrator: Benjamin Soames, R...
Published: 07/02/2012
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Molly Bloom’s Soliloquy, James Joyce

Molly Bloom’s Soliloquy

by James Joyce

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Molly Bloom’s famous soliloquy from James Joyce’s Ulysses is a languorous int...

Unabridged: 2 hr 23 min
Narrator: Marcella Riordan
Published: 04/30/2012
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Great Men and Women in the History of Medicine, David Angus

Great Men and Women in the Histor...

by David Angus

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Illness, disease and injury prompted the development of medicine from the earliest days o...

Unabridged: 2 hr 38 min
Narrator: Benjamin Soames
Published: 09/30/2013
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John Masefield, John Masefield

John Masefield

by John Masefield

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John Masefield (1878–1967) was one of the most prolific, popular and successful poe...

Unabridged: 1 hr 7 min
The Great Poets
Narrator: Ronald Pickup
Published: 07/01/2013
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Shamela, Henry Fielding

Shamela

by Henry Fielding

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Shamela is a bawdy, spirited and hilarious response to Samuel Richardson’s hugely p...

Unabridged: 1 hr 30 min
Narrator: Clare Corbett, and...
Published: 09/02/2013
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Dinosaurs, Jen Green

Dinosaurs

by Jen Green

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Journey back in time to the age of the dinosaurs, the biggest, scariest creatures the wor...

Unabridged: 2 hr 34 min
Narrator: Benjamin Soames
Published: 03/03/2014
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The Snow Queen and Other Stories, Hans Christian Andersen

The Snow Queen and Other Stories

by Hans Christian Andersen...

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The Snow Queen is one of Andersen’s most affecting stories. Little Kay is enticed a...

Unabridged: 2 hr 4 min
Narrator: Clare Corbett
Published: 11/03/2014
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Aesop’s Fables, Aesop

Aesop’s Fables

by Aesop

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A collection of these enduring tales for children and adults, with entertaining music and...

Unabridged: 1 hr 18 min
Narrator: Anton Lesser
Published: 01/01/2000
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge...

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in collaboration with his friend William Wordsworth, revolutioni...

Unabridged: 1 hr 19 min
The Great Poets
Narrator: Michael Sheen, Joh...
Published: 04/26/2010
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John Donne, John Donne

John Donne

by John Donne

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Sophisticated wit and intense emotion, religious fervour and erotic sensuality, delight i...

Unabridged: 1 hr 9 min
The Great Poets
Narrator: Geoffrey Whitehead...
Published: 06/01/2010
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Francesco Petrarch, Francesco Petrarch

Francesco Petrarch

by Francesco Petrarch

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This 14th-century Italian poet was a model for many who followed him. His passionate sonn...

Unabridged: 1 hr 1 min
The Great Poets
Narrator: Anton Lesser
Published: 06/01/2010
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Cathedrals – In a Nutshell, Jonathan Gregson

Cathedrals – In a Nutshell

by Jonathan Gregson

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For almost two millennia, cathedrals have been among the most imposing, astonishing and i...

Unabridged: 1 hr 18 min
Narrator: Roy McMillan
Published: 08/31/2010
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A Lover’s Gift: From Her to Him, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Marianna Alcoforado, Mary Wollenstonecraft, Anne Bradstreet, Kuan Tao-Sheng, Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de l’Espinasse, Katherine Mansfield, Heloise, Emily Bronte, Jane Clairmont, Charl

A Lover’s Gift: From Her to...

by Elizabeth Barrett Brown...

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‘I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach’ The eloqu...

Unabridged: 1 hr 17 min
Narrator: Laura Paton
Published: 10/01/2006
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A Lover’s Gift: From Him to Her, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Robert Burns, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Thomas Hardy, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Butler Yeats, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Napoleon Bonaparte, Karl

A Lover’s Gift: From Him to...

by William Shakespeare, Ch...

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A collection of poetry and music expressing the romantic feelings of poets, writers and c...

Unabridged: 1 hr 15 min
Narrator: Michael Sheen
Published: 10/01/2006
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W. B. Yeats, W. B. Yeats

W. B. Yeats

by W. B. Yeats

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Naxos AudioBooks continues its new series of Great Poets – represented by a co...

Unabridged: 1 hr 4 min
The Great Poets
Narrator: Jim Norton, Denys ...
Published: 11/26/2007
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John Milton, John Milton

John Milton

by John Milton

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Milton stands alongside Shakespeare and the Bible in the power of his verse and its conti...

Unabridged: 1 hr 19 min
The Great Poets
Narrator: Samantha Bond, and...
Published: 01/28/2008
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Percy Bysshe Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Idealist, atheist, outcast, political radical and, of course, poet – Percy Bys...

Unabridged: 1 hr 18 min
The Great Poets
Narrator: Bertie Carvel
Published: 03/03/2008
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William McGonagall, William Topaz McGonagall

William McGonagall

by William Topaz McGonagal...

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The idiosyncratic Scottish poet William Topaz McGonagall has the unusual reputation as on...

Unabridged: 58 min
The Great Poets
Narrator: Gregor Fisher
Published: 03/30/2009
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Ch...

by Elizabeth Barrett Brown...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) and Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) wer...

Unabridged: 1 hr 17 min
The Great Poets
Narrator: Rachel Bavidge, an...
Published: 01/05/2009
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Robert Browning, Robert Browning

Robert Browning

by Robert Browning

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Robert Browning’s popular poems The Pied Piper of Hamelin and How They Brought the ...

Unabridged: 1 hr 16 min
The Great Poets
Narrator: David Timson, andP...
Published: 04/26/2010
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Darwin – In a Nutshell, Peter Whitfield

Darwin – In a Nutshell

by Peter Whitfield

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Naxos AudioBooks launches a new 1 CD introductory series In a Nutshell with Darwin, marki...

Unabridged: 1 hr 14 min
Narrator: Peter Whitfield
Published: 02/02/2009
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Karma and Rebirth – In a Nutshell, Jinananda

Karma and Rebirth – In a Nu...

by Jinananda

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Buddhist teacher and writer Jinananda considers the history, the tradition and the more c...

Unabridged: 1 hr 18 min
Narrator: Jinananda
Published: 02/02/2009
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From Shakespeare – with love, William Shakespeare

From Shakespeare – with lov...

by William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare’s Sonnets, one of the most remarkable collections of poetry, was first ...

Unabridged: 1 hr 15 min
Narrator: David Tennant,Juli...
Published: 03/30/2009
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The Renaissance – In a Nutshell, Peter Whitfield

The Renaissance – In a Nuts...

by Peter Whitfield

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The fifth in the new Naxos Audiobooks series ‘In a Nutshell’, The Renaissance...

Unabridged: 1 hr 18 min
Narrator: Peter Whitfield
Published: 07/27/2009
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Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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The 200th anniversary of the birth of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), one of the...

Unabridged: 1 hr 6 min
The Great Poets
Narrator: Michael Pennington...
Published: 07/27/2009
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Andersen's Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen

Andersen's Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen...

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The world of Hans Christian Andersen is seen through the eyes of children. There is the e...

Unabridged: 2 hr 34 min
Narrator: Erica Johns
Published: 08/01/2000
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Great Speeches & Soliloquies of Shakespeare, William Shakespeare

Great Speeches & Soliloquies of S...

by William Shakespeare

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To be or not to be… Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow… O for a Muse of Fir...

Unabridged: 2 hr 7 min
Narrator: Simon Russell Beal...
Published: 10/01/2000
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Great Poets of the Romantic Age, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Lord Byron

Great Poets of the Romantic Age

by William Blake, William ...

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The Tyger… I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud… Ode to the West Wind… The R...

Unabridged: 2 hr 38 min
Narrator: Michael Sheen
Published: 10/01/2000
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The Pied Piper, and other favourite poems, EDWARD LEAR,  KATHLEEN RAINE,  WILLIAM BLAKE,  VACHEL LINDSAY, LEWIS CARROLL, VACHEL LINDSAY, H.W. LONGFELLOW, THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK, SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, JOHN MOLE, WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS,  JOHN DRINKWATER, ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON,  KIT WRIGHT,  ANONYMOUS,

The Pied Piper, and other favouri...

by EDWARD LEAR, KATHLEEN ...

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Here are sixty of the finest and most entertaining poems for younger listeners. There are...

Unabridged: 1 hr 59 min
Narrator: Anton Lesser, Anne...
Published: 04/01/2000
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Four Short Stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Four Short Stories

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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In these stories, Conan Doyle draws the listener in to experience drama, suspense and, ul...

Unabridged: 2 hr 34 min
Narrator: Carl Rigg
Published: 05/01/2000
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Rudyard Kipling

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

by Rudyard Kipling

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Five tales which range from the jungles of India to the frozen emptiness of the North&hel...

Unabridged: 2 hr 33 min
Narrator: Madhav Sharma
Published: 06/01/2000
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Popular Poetry, Popular Verse – Volume II, William Shakespeare; John Donne; Rupert Brooke; Alexander Pope; William Wordsworth; Lord Byron

Popular Poetry, Popular Verse &nd...

by William Shakespeare; Jo...

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Nearly 100 of the most popular and loved poems in the English language, this collection i...

Unabridged: 2 hr 37 min
Narrator: Tony Britton,Jaspe...
Published: 10/01/2000
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The Tale of Troy, Benedict Flynn

The Tale of Troy

by Benedict Flynn

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There was once a time, nearly four thousand years ago, when the tall towers of a city cal...

Unabridged: 2 hr 37 min
Narrator: Benjamin Soames
Published: 06/01/2000
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The Adventures of Odysseus, Benedict Flynn

The Adventures of Odysseus

by Benedict Flynn

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The Adventures of Odysseus is the story of what happened after the Trojan War when Odysse...

Unabridged: 2 hr 15 min
Narrator: Benjamin Soames
Published: 04/01/2000
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The Christmas Collection, Christina Hardyment

The Christmas Collection

by Christina Hardyment

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Christmas brings out the best and the worst in us, as can be seen in this evocative antho...

Unabridged: 2 hr 31 min
Narrator: Peter Jeffrey, Joh...
Published: 09/27/2010
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Poems of the Orient, Khayyam; Rumi; Sa’di; Hafiz; Tagore; et al.

Poems of the Orient

by Khayyam; Rumi; Sa&rsquo...

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The Ruba’iyat of Omar Khayyam, in the famous translation by Edward FitzGerald, rema...

Unabridged: 2 hr 35 min
Narrator: David Timson, and ...
Published: 06/01/2000
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Seven Ages, William Shakespeare; Thom Gunn; Anne Stevenson; Emily Dickinson; Ogden Nash; Edward Lear; Thomas Hood; William Allingham; Robert Louis Stevenson; A. A. Milne; Lewis Carroll; Ted Hughes; G. K. Chesterton; Anonymous; Ted Hughes; Dylan Thomas; Vernon Watkins

Seven Ages

by William Shakespeare; Th...

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‘One of the best anthologies of the year… An arresting, deeply moving collec...

Unabridged: 2 hr 34 min
Narrator: Sir Michael Caine,...
Published: 04/01/2000
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Robin Hood, Benedict Flynn

Robin Hood

by Benedict Flynn

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The popularity of Robin Hood endures for ever. In this bright re-telling for audiobook by...

Unabridged: 2 hr 19 min
Narrator: John McAndrew
Published: 04/01/2001
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Famous People in History – Volume 2, Nicolas Soames

Famous People in History – ...

by Nicolas Soames

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There is a need for accessible short biographies of key people for younger listeners. Fol...

Unabridged: 2 hr 37 min
Narrator: Daniel Philpott, L...
Published: 03/01/2000
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Great Historical Shakespeare Recordings, William Shakespeare

Great Historical Shakespeare Reco...

by William Shakespeare

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Historical recordings of actors from the beginning of the recording era. CD 1: Historical...

Unabridged: 2 hr 5 min
Narrator: Herbert Beerbohm T...
Published: 07/01/2000
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Jane Austen: A Biography, Elizabeth Jenkins

Jane Austen: A Biography

by Elizabeth Jenkins

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This highly enjoyable account of the life of Jane Austen is regarded as the classic biogr...

Unabridged: 2 hr 30 min
Narrator: Teresa Gallagher
Published: 05/01/2000
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Ballet Stories, David Angus

Ballet Stories

by David Angus

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The stories of the most popular ballets are told in refreshing style against the backdrop...

Unabridged: 1 hr 48 min
Narrator: Jenny Agutter
Published: 05/01/2001
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Port Authority, Conor McPherson

Port Authority

by Conor McPherson

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Conor McPherson is one of the leading figures in Irish contemporary drama. His look at li...

Unabridged: 1 hr 31 min
Narrator: Jim Norton, Stephe...
Published: 03/01/2002