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Reflections 11 and 12
Read by Christine Rottger
John Erskine
In Reflections on the rise, progress, and probable consequences, of the present contentions with the colonies. By a freeholder.
Several late pamphlets composed with much art and ability have painted the claims and conduct of the North Americans; and thereby, have not …
Boyd Raeburn and David Allen
Jubilee
In Jubilee
Jubilee ran from 1942 to 1953 and was aimed as a morale-building service for black troops and aired for military personnel. The show was hos…
Brittain's Ida
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Edmund Spenser
In Brittains Ida or Venus and Anchises
While hunting, the boy Anchises stumbles upon Venus's forest retreat and is so kindly entertained by the goddess that he becomes the proud f…
Cheshire
Read by Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025)
Edmund Mackenzie Sneyd-Kinnersley
In H.M.I.: Some Passages in the Life of One of H.M. Inspectors of Schools
Sneyd-Kinnersley was an Inspector of Schools in a period when regulations were rapidly changing and access to free public education was expa…
Translation
Read by Inkell
George Gordon, Lord Byron
In Hours of Idleness
Hours of Idleness was Byron's first book of poems published when he was only 19. In it he experiments with various poetic styles and provid…
Hawke
Read by Alan Mapstone
Sir Henry Newbolt
In Admirals All
A short collection of poems on Naval and other military themes by the English poet and military historian Sir Henry Newbolt published in1897…
XXXVII
Read by Stacey Malcolm
Gertrude Atherton
In Rulers of Kings: A Novel
When a child is born, its temperament and character are unknown. The effects of nature versus nurture, of heredity and of circumstance are a…