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Padraic Colum reads a selection of poetry and prose by Mangan, Moore, Swift, Curran and MacManus.

> Everyman is a late 15th-century English morality play. "Here begins a treatise [tale] of how the high Father of Heaven sends Death to summon every creature to come and give account of their lives in this world, told in the form of a morality play". Nothing is known of the author, but it is performed here by actor Burgess Meredith.

Academy Award winning actor Robert Donat reads a selection of his favourite poetry including Greater Love by Wilfred Owen, Ode To Melancholy by John Keats and On Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth.

Taken from The Old Testament, the story revolves around Judith, a daring and beautiful widow, who is upset with her Jewish countrymen for not trusting God to deliver them from their foreign conquerors. She goes with her loyal maid to the camp of the enemy general, Holofernes, to whom she slowly ingratiates herself, promising him information on the Israelites. Gaining his trust, she is allowed access to his tent one night as he lies in a drunken stupor.

One of the world's greatest authors here reads a selection of his favourite literature.

Siobhan McKenna reads The White Trout, The Soul Cages and Jamie Freel and The Young Lady.

The power of the voice to arouse; indulge with these selected sensual stories.

A beautiful collection of love letters from some of the world's most famous personalities.

A timeless collection of short stories by leading authors including Tolstoy, Fenimore Cooper, Mansfield and Dickens.

GS Fraser, John Laurie and Frederick Worlock amongst others read a collection of Scotland's finest poetry featuring Robert Burns, William Dunbar, Mark Alexander and Hugh MacDiarmid.

Claire Bloom reads one of the shorter books of the Old Testament. It's name comes from the heroine of this beautiful and compelling story.

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.

Basil Rathbone and Jane Powell narrate the Brothers Grimm tale, with music from Humperdinck's opera performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan.

The styles and rhythms of English can vary fully as much as in poetry. This wonderful collection of highlights from the greats of English literature aims to illustrate the ways in which each great writer has bent the language to his will. The recordings were made in the 1950s by members of the University of Cambridge and directed by George Rylands.

The writing of sonnets was a craze among poets of the 1590s. The sonnet, an Italian form, was introduced into England by Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542), who modelled himself on Petrarch, and by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547). It was Surrey who invented what is now known as the Shakespearean sonnet - three differently rhyming quatrains and a clinching couplet. This collection of Elizabethan sonnets and lyrics were recorded by Anthony Quayle.

The most defining voices and sounds from World War II. Hear the voices of Winston Churchill, General Eisenhower, Vera Lynn, President Truman, Neville Chamberlain, and more.

An album of jokes and humour that will have you crying and groaning.

Three classic Ghost stories originally recorded for radio in the 1930s and performed by Inner Sanctum.

An entertaining selection of short stories including tales by George Eliot, O'Henry, Saki and Charles Dickens.

A wonderful collection of poetry to inspire including Tennyson's "Ulysses", Kipling's "If" and Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic".