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The Patrician
Read by Simon Evers
John Galsworthy
The book revolves around the story of two love affairs. Miltoun (an aspiring politician) proposes to Mrs Audrey Noel, only to find that she …
Esther Waters
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George Moore and George Logan Moore
“She stood on the platform watching the receding train. A few bushes hid the curve of the line; the white vapour rose above them, evaporatin…
Cakes & Ale, A Dissertation on Banquets Interspersed with Various Recipes, More…
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Edward Spencer
A long time ago, an estimable lady fell at the feet of an habitual publisher, and prayed unto him:—“Give, oh! give me the subject of a book …
Missing: Page Thirteen
Read by Bev J Stevens
Anna Katharine Green
Violet Strange, a clever petite detective, is called upon to solve the mystery of a page gone missing from an important document. The future…
Fanny and the Servant Problem
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Jerome K. Jerome
"It is so sad when relations don't get on together." "Sadder still when they think they've got a right to trample on you, jus…
Bread
Read by WildShimmeringPath
Charles G. Norris
Bread by Charles G. Norris reads like a working class Great Gatsby with a tragic female main character. The author is said to have influence…
Doris and the Ankh
Read by Brian Holtz
Brian Holtz
A fantasy adventure for all ages.
Doris, a neurotic and quirky thirteen-year-old, is thrust into an alternate reality where flowers sneeze,…
Major Barbara
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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara focuses on the family of aristocratic Lady Britomart Undershaft and her estranged husband Andrew, a mill…
New Chronicles of Rebecca
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
This book tells further stories from the period of Rebecca's sojourn in Riverboro.
Barbara Frietchie
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John Greenleaf Whittier
This was the weekly poem for Flag Day 2006. It tells the largely-apocryphal but nonetheless inspiring story of one old woman’s act of patrio…
Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls
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Helen Ekin Starrett
Helen Ekin Starrett, journalist, mother of two daughters, grandmother of seven granddaughters and teacher to many young girls at the Starret…
Jacqueline of Golden River
Read by Roger Melin
Victor Rousseau
Jacqueline seems to have contracted a touch of amnesia, as she is found in an apartment with a dead man, and with a weapon in her hand. But …
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Read by Bellona Times
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pretty but socially clueless Bernice lets her know-it-all cousin push her around, but eventually, something's gotta give! (Introduction by B…
Terence Kelly Revolution On St Barbara
SANWAL
Saturday-Night Theatre Sat 20th Feb 1988, 19:45 on BBC Radio 4 FM Revolution on St Barbara by Terence Kelly, dramatised …
Warm Honey
Read by Steve McAlpine
Steve McAlpine
Do you parents fill you up with their faults and add a few extra ones as a special bonus?
Rob meets Charis at the same time as he is making …
Mrs. Piozzi's Thraliana
Read by Barbara Baker
Charles Hughes
"It is many years since Dr. Samuel Johnson advised me to get a little book, and write in it all the Anecdotes which might come to my kn…
The Valley of Baca: a Record of Suffering and Triumph
Read by TriciaG
Jennie Smith
Jennie Smith was a 19th-Century Job. At 15 years old, her father's business and finances failed, and he later died of illness, leaving her f…
A Strange Disappearance (Version 2)
Read by Mark Leder
Anna Katharine Green
Housekeeper Mrs. Daniels brings to Detective Ebenezer Gryce and his assistant Q the case of a serving girl who has vanished from the househo…
PMB093 Shades of Barbara Moore: Brass Incorporated, Pato Fu, Birds 'n' Brass, L…
Project Moonbase
This week on the show we shine a light on prolific composer, arranger and vocalist Barbara Moore. If that name isn't all that familiar, Barb…
Recollections of the Revolution and the Empire
Read by Barbara Baker
Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet
An aristocratic Frenchwoman's personal record of the dazzling extravagance of the Ancien Régime, of the court of Marie Antoinette, of…