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The Skipper's Wooing

Read by Alan Lord


W. W. Jacobs


The crew of the ship come together in a syndicate to find the missing father of the lady whom their skipper should like to favour. Their res…

Lord Brougham

In The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain

Read by Alan Mapstone


John Henry Ingram


Possibly no part in the world is more connected in our minds to hauntings, ghost sightings and gruesome legends than Great Britain with its …

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

Read by Alan Mapstone


George Gordon, Lord Byron


English Bards and Scotch Reviewers was first published anonymously in 1809 with Byron only identified as the author in the 2nd edition. Byro…

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto III

Read by Alan Mapstone


George Gordon, Lord Byron


Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. It was published between 1812 and 1818. The poem describ…

Chillon by Lord Byron

In Sonnets of This Century

Read by Alan Mapstone


Various


This comprehensive anthology of English sonnets of the Nineteenth Century, edited and arranged by William Sharp, was published in 1887. It…

21 - Lord Beltham's Murderer

In Fantômas

Read by Alan Winterrowd


Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain


Fantômas is the first of 32 novels penned from 1911 to 1913 by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre. The title character is a ruthless t…

Poems Concerning the Slave Trade

Read by Alan Mapstone


Robert Southey


Robert Southey, a future Poet Laureate, was born in Bristol, one of the principal ports in England for the slave trade. He wrote these poems…

A Victim of Higher Space

In Three More John Silence Stories

Read by Alan Lord


Algernon Blackwood


A trio of supernatural stories by famed author Algernon Blackwood. - Summary by eduardol

Billy Has a Ride in the Police Patrol Wagon

In Billy Whiskers, The Autobiography of a Goat (Version 2)

Read by Alan Lord


Frances Trego Montgomery


This is the original story in the beloved series of Billy Whisker books by Frances Trego Montgomery. Billy is a loveable goat whose adventur…

Farmer Brown’s Boy Has No Luck

In Little Joe Otter

Read by Alan Lord


Thornton W. Burgess


“Folks aren’t so sure about you when You spring surprises now and then.”  Little Joe Otter.Join Little Joe Otter and Peter Rabbit in their a…

Rob's Navy

In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 27, May 4, 1880

Read by Alan Lord


Various


Harper's Young People is an illustrated weekly publication for children that includes short stories, tales from history, natural history, po…

Dido Is Caught

In Dido, the Dancing Bear: His Many Adventures

Read by Alan Lord


Richard Barnum


One of the Kneetime Animal Stories for children, Dido the Dancing Bear may seem unethical today, but when it was written in 1916, such spect…