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  Mean Time

  Professor Carol Ann Duffy DBE

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  In her prize-winning fourth collection, Mean Time, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, finding moments of grace or consolation in memory, love and language amid the complexities of life. These are powerful poems of loss, betrayal and desire.

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  Frederick Cowles - A Short Story...

  Frederick Cowles

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  Frederick Ignatius Cowles was born in 1900 in Cambridge, England. 
   
  This unfamiliar name is one of the gems of English supernatural fiction as well as several other works of travelogues, history, folklore, and children's books.  
   
  When his supernatural short stories, and some are very short indeed, were first published they were compared to the works of M R James and EF Benson, yet unlike those two authors he fell, unfairly, into obscurity. 
   
  In all he wrote perhaps 60 short stories with weird and supernatural themes. 
   
  Frederick Cowles died in 1948 although some accounts offer that it was 1949.

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  Aurora Leigh

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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  Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s classic poem, read by Diana Quick. 
  Written in blank verse, Aurora Leigh is Browning’s self-styled ‘novel in verse’, a first-person narration of the lives of Marian Erle and the eponymous Aurora. Travelling across Florence, London, and Paris, and playing off the works of Anne Louise Germaine de Staël and George Sand, Aurora Leigh is one of the greatest poems of the nineteenth century. 
  The top quality of Browning's work is evident in the vivid descriptions of Florence, London, and Paris. The best of her poetic prowess is showcased in the intricate narrative of Marian Erle and Aurora Leigh. 
  For fans of American Renaissance Books (Walden), Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson (The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson), Stephen Greenblatt (Renaissance Self-Fashioning), Elaine Showalter (Maude by Christina Rossetti, On Sisterhoods and A Woman's Thoughts About Women By Dinah Mulock Craik), and Salman Rushdie (Languages of Truth).

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  Sorry Wrong Number

  Lucille Fletcher

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  When wires get crossed, a woman accidentally overhears the telephone conversation of two men plotting a murder. Suspense and terror mounts as the woman slowly realizes that the intended victim is herself. This legendary one-act became one of radio’s most famous plays, and was later adapted into a now classic work of film noir starring Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance starring Susan Sullivan as Mrs. Stevenson alongside Pamela Dunlap, Sam McMurray, Andre Sogliuzzo, Kate Steele, and Sarah Zimmerman.Directed by Rosalind Ayres. Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.

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  A Pinch of Salt

  Robert Graves

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 different recordings of A Pinch of Salt by Robert Graves.    Perhaps now best known as the author whose book of the same name inspired the Masterpiece Theater series I, Claudius, Robert Graves wrote prolifically throughout his 90 years, concentrating on myth in a scholarly vein. Many of his works were academically controversial. And yet, first and foremost, he considered himself a poet. This poem, which first appeared in 1920, shows Graves to be not only a careful and cautious man, but also exceedingly passionate (Summary by Alan Davis-Drake).    This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 3rd, 2007.

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  Queen Margaret (NHB Modern Plays)

  William Shakespeare

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  Hungry for power and angered by their king, the nobles of Henry VI's court plot and scheme against each other. As Henry wavers and the factions split, Queen Margaret is determined to hold on to power and protect the crown that will one day belong to her son.
  Using Shakespeare's original lines, alongside new text, Jeanie O'Hare retells the Wars of the Roses through the eyes of the Queen. A captivating exploration of an iconic moment in British history, the play premiered at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, in September 2018, directed by Elizabeth Freestone and featuring Jade Anouka as Margaret of Anjou.
  'This lady excelled all others, as well in beauty and favour, as in wit and policy, and was of stomach more like a man than a woman' - Holinshed's Chronicles, 1577

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