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Farmer Giles of Ham

Author : J. R. R. Tolkien

Performed By : Derek Jacobi

Publisher : Harper Collins UK

Runtime : 3 hours

Categories : Classic Literature
Classics
Myths & Legends

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Farmer Giles of Ham is one of Tolkien’s most popular stories, full of wit and humour, set in the days when giants and dragons walked the earth. He did not look like a hero. He was fat and red-bearded and enjoyed a slow, comfortable life.



Then one day a rather deaf and short-sighted giant blundered on to his land. More by luck than skill, Farmer Giles managed to scare him away. The people of the village cheered: Farmer Giles was a hero.



His reputation spread far and wide across the kingdom. So it was natural that when the dragon Chrysophylax visited the area it was Farmer Giles who was expected to do battle with it!



Two further stories in this collections are Smith of Wooton Major which tells of the preparation of the Great Cake to mark the Feast of Good Children, and the strange events which follow, and Leaf by Niggle, which recounts the strange adventures of the painter, Niggle.

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‘A fabulous tale of the days when giants and dragons walked the kingdom’

Sunday Times

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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.