Tickner Edwardes
The Lore of the Honey-Bee
Read by Steve C
The sun shines — you know it has always shone, changeless as Time itself. With such a faith — unfounded and therefore incontestable — I cam…
The Bee-Master of Warrilow
Read by Steve C
"Is it true that a bee can only sting once?" I asked him, as he bent again over the crocus beds.He laughed."What would be the…
With The Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt
Read by Steve C
Throughout the First World War, members of the Royal Army Medical Corps provided constant support for British and Allied military troops whe…
Lift-Luck on Southern Roads
Read by Steve C
Here for you is the tale of my latest solitary ramble. The journey covers, as you shall see, some two hundred odd miles, through five southe…
Neighbourhood – A Year’s Life in and About an English Village
Read by Steve C
If you love the quiet of the country - the real quiet which is not silence at all, but the blending of a myriad scarce-perceptible sounds yo…
Neighbourhood – A Year’s Life in and About an English Village (version 2)
Read by Peter Yearsley
Tickner Edwardes (properly Edward Tickner Edwardes) served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during WWI and later became the vicar of the West…
An Idler In The Wilds
Read by Steve C
Although he was well known around the South Downs in West Sussex as 'The Bee-man of Burpham', Tickner Edwardes also had a great affinity for…
Coffee Break Collection 035 - Birds
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
This is the 35th Coffee Break Collection, in which LibriVox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifte…