Dozen Red Roses, A: 12 Valentines Poems
Author : Various
Performed By : Various
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 22 minutes
Categories : Poetry
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Twelve specially selected favourite love poems, read by acclaimed actors Bill Wallis and Jenny Agutter.
This literary bouquet of blooms includes Andrew Marvell’s classic To His Coy Mistress, a beautiful extract from The Song of Solomon, Christina Rossetti’s joyful A Birthday, and Christopher Marlowe’s The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.
As well, there are Edward Fitzgerald’s meditations from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Edward Lear’s comic verse The Owl and The Pussycat, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s If Thou Must Love Me, John Donne’s The Sunne Rising and lines from John Milton’s Paradise Lost.
Completing the dozen are Robert Burns’ My Love is Like A Red, Red Rose, Robert Herrick’s Delight in Disorder and Shakespeare’s Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day.
The poems are also available as individual downloads under the "Dozen Red Roses, A" series.
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Arabian Nights, The
Author : Sir Richard Burton
Performed By : Philip Madoc
Publisher : Select Music & Distribution
Runtime : 3 hours 50 minutes
Categories : Classic Literature
Classics
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Though The Arabian Nights are generally known as stories for children, they were originally tales for adults full of adventure, sexuality, violence and the supernatural.
They certainly inspired the imagination of Sir Richard Burton, the 19th century explorer, linguist and erotologist who brought all his worldly experience and a superbly expressive prose style to bear on the tales of Sindbad the Seaman and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Scheherazade must keep her king entertained with stories if she is to avoid the promised sentence of death.
Philip Madoc's sonorous performance allows the tales to weave their own enchantment as they have done down the centuries.
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