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Read by Niall Buggy
Imagine a woodin Wales, virtually in Englanda mile away as crows who nest in it fly. The wood is small and scruffy.Sheep can…
Read by Sinéad Cusack & Patrick Kennedy
The light of evening, Lissadell, Great windows open to the south, Two girls in silk kimonos, both Beautiful, one a gazelle. But…
Read by Robert Hardy, Tom Burke, Rupert Evans + 1 other
I don’t want to be a soldier, I don’t want to go to war. I’d rather stay at home, Around the streets…
“Four years,” some say consolingly. “Oh well, What’s that ? You’re young. And then it must have been A very fine experience…
Read by Lisa Dwan, Emilia Fox & Kelly Reilly
We came upon him sitting in the sun Blinded by war, and left. And past the fence There came young soldiers from…
Read by Danny Webb, Dan Stevens, Charles Dance + 2 others
Six of us lay in a Dugout At ease with our limbs astretch, And worshipped a feminine picture Cut from a week-old…
Read by Rupert Evans, Tom Burke, Dan Stevens + 1 other
If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England….
Read by Harold Pinter, Deborah Findlay & Freddie Fox
Sometimes you hear, fifth-hand, As epitaph: He chucked up everything And just cleared off, And always the voice will sound Certain you…
Read by Freddie Fox & Harold Pinter
“Dockery was junior to you, Wasn’t he?” said the Dean. “His son’s here now.” Death-suited, visitant, I nod. “And do You keep…
Read by Harold Pinter, Freddie Fox & Samuel West
‘Of course I was drugged, and so heavily I did not regain consciousness until the next morning. I was horrified to discover…
Read by Seamus Heaney, Sinéad Cusack, Lisa Dwan + 2 others
His chosen comrades thought at school He must grow a famous man; He thought the same and lived by rule, All his…
Read by Charles Dance
Nautilus Island’s hermit heiress still lives through winter in her Spartan cottage; her sheep still graze above the sea. Her son’s a…