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Read by John Standing & Kristin Scott Thomas
A single flow’r he sent me, since we met. All tenderly his messenger he chose; Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet…
Read by Ralph Fiennes
Our earth in 1969 Is not the planet I call mine, The world, I mean, that gives me strength To hold off…
Read by Elizabeth McGovern
“In America”, began the lecturer, “everyone must have a degree. The French do not think that all can have it, they don’t…
Read by Petroc Trelawny, Rupert Evans & Danny Webb
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned…
Read by Harold Pinter
She kept her songs, they kept so little space, The covers pleased her: One bleached from lying in a sunny place, One…
[excerpt] ‘What Power delights to torture us? I know That to myself I do not wholly owe What now I suffer, though…
Read by Sophie Cookson & Joanna David
Axes After whose stroke the wood rings, And the echoes! Echoes traveling Off from the center like horses. The sap Wells like…
My father used to say, “Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellow’s grave nor the glass flowers at…
Read by Kenneth Cranham & Roger Moore
I went into a public-‘ouse to get a pint o’ beer, The publican ‘e up an’ sez, ‘We serve no red-coats here.’…
Read by Dominic West & Roger Moore
‘What are the bugles blowin’ for?’ said Files-on-Parade. ‘To turn you out, to turn you out,’ the Colour-Sergeant said. ‘What makes you…
Read by Freddie Fox, Patrick Kennedy, Joel MacCormack + 1 other
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has withered from the lake, And no birds sing. O…
Read by Rupert Evans & Robert Hardy
I I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; ‘Good speed!’ cried the…