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The Regent
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Arnold Bennett
'The Regent' is, if not a sequel to 'The Card', then a 'Further Adventures of' the eponymous hero of that novel.Denry Machin is now forty-th…
Bladys of the Stewponey
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Sabine Baring-Gould
The setting, geography and history of this story by Rev'd Sabine Baring-Gould, author of Onward Christian Soldiers and a number of other wel…
Yet Again
Read by Kirsten Wever
Max Beerbohm
This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such famous men as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard …
The Gamekeeper at Home
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Richard Jefferies
Richard Jefferies (1848 – 1887) was born and spent his childhood on a farm at Coate,Wiltshire. He joined the ‘Wiltshire and Gloucestershire …
Four Max Carrados Detective Stories
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Ernest Bramah
Ernest Bramah is mainly known for his 'Kai Lung' books - Dorothy L Sayers often used quotes from them for her chapter headings. In his lifet…
The Wrong Box
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Wrong Box is a comedy about the ending of a tontine (a tontine is an arrangement whereby a number of young people subscribe to a fund wh…
The Card
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Arnold Bennett
The ‘Card’ in question is Edward Henry Machin - His mother called him ‘Denry’. This light-hearted story is of his rise from humble beginning…
Cleek: The Man of the Forty Faces
Read by Ruth Golding
Thomas W. Hanshew
Meet Hamilton Cleek - man of mystery, and master of disguise and derring-do.Cleek's exploits are, to say the least, highly improbable, but t…
The Celebrity
Read by Joseph Tabler
Winston Churchill
Satirizes the rise of a young novelist (thought to be Richard Harding Davis, but denied as such by Churchill). - Summary by Joseph Tabler
Das Spinnennetz
Read by Availle
Joseph Roth
Theodor Lohse beschließt den 1. Weltkrieg als unbedeutender Leutnant und findet Arbeit als Hauslehrer beim reichen Juden Efrussi. Dort…
The Prisoner of Zenda
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Anthony Hope
The Prisoner of Zenda tells the story of Rudolf Rassendyll, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania, a country not a thousand miles fro…
The History of Mr. Polly
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
H. G. Wells
A funny and touching account of the imaginative Mr. Polly who, bored and trapped in his conventional life, makes a U-turn –- and changes eve…
Silas Marner (version 2)
Read by Tadhg
George Eliot
Reputed as Eliot’s favourite novel Silas Marner is set in the early years of the 19th century. Marner, a weaver, is a member of a small cong…
When William Came
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Saki
We have had many novels about alternate histories, often of the 'What would have happened if Hitler had won the war' type and this is anothe…
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Study In Scarlet
SANWAL
A Study in Scarlet By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Dramatised for radio by Michael Hardwick With: Carleton Hobb…
The Curious Quest
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
E. Phillips Oppenheim
A sweet, simple tale of how friendship and honesty triumph over money. The protagonist’s pun of a name—Ernest Bliss—foreshadows the plot in …
Partial Portraits
Read by Rita Boutros
Henry James
In this book, writer Henry James gives wonderful and probing insights into the lives and works of many famous and interesting writers, some …