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  Great French Poems - 35...

  Baudelaire, Hugo, Villon

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  Here are 35 of the greatest poems in the French language, carefully selected and read in French by Bill Homewood, the bilingual English classical actor who has spent half his life in France. To help those English speakers with just a little French to appreciate the glories of these poems, he provides his own clear English translations.The poems range from the earliest medieval and renaissance masterpieces - François Villon, Joachim de Bellay, Pierre de Ronsard and others - to the high romance of the 19th century, with Victor Hugo, Paul Verlaine and Charles Baudelaire, then on to the poets who revolutionised style and led us into the 20th century: Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, Guillaume Apollinaire and Paul Eluard.Recorded in France, this collection has already attracted praise from leading figures in French culture and critics alike.

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  Cutting Pieces in Darkness & Light

  Renata Di Valentin

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  This collection of lyrical and thoughtful free verse poetry takes readers on a journey through life's thoughts and sentiments. Everything from the loss of a mother to the ache of heartbreak is given a moment on the page. Readers can feel the beat of the poetry’s pulse and lose themselves in a life other than their own, while still seeing reflections of themselves in the poems’ deep waters. 
  Poetry is written to inspire, and Cutting Pieces in Darkness & Light hopes to show readers a path through the hard times in life. Put yourselves in the shoes of the poet and experience the beauty in everything and everyone.

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  Kubla Khan

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you ## different recordings of Alice Pleasance Liddell by Lewis Carroll. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 24th, 2007.

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  Human Collateral

  Tanya Hilson

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  Millicent Brown is not the perfect mother, as she rents out her Chicago apartment to drug dealers as a trap house. However, when a deal goes wrong with one of her dealers, Mill is arrested as she watches the Director of the Department of Children and Family Services, Mrs. Ross, take her children away. 
  While it is Ms. Ross's responsibility to make sure these children are taken care of, Mrs. Ross instead starts orchestrating the sale of Mill's two children. 
  Will Mill be vindicated, or will she be lost in the system forever?

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  Rudyard Kipling

  Rudyard Kipling

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  This anthology contains many of Kipling’s most famous poems, If, Mandalay, Gunga Din. Though sometimes still regarded as a product of the colonial era, Kipling touches a very popular nerve in Britain’s literary tradition, and is regarded more generously now as a master of popular verse. It is often forgotten that he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907.

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  10 Rillington Place: The Trials...

  Mr Punch

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  Prepare yourself for a gripping journey back into the darkest corners of post-war London and the shocking story of the infamous Rillington Place murders that shook London in the early 1950’s.  Based on the original trial transcripts, it is for you to decide if an innocent man was sent to the gallows. 
   
  On January 11, 1950, Timothy Evans of 10 Rillington Place stood trial at the Old Bailey, accused of the murder of his own baby daughter.  The courtroom was heavy with tension as the prosecution, led by Mr Christmas Humphreys, began delving into the mysterious death of his wife, building their case on the sworn testimony of a fellow tenant who resided on the ground floor - Mr John Reginald Christie.  The jury took only 35 minutes to find him guilty and on March 9, still protesting his innocence, Timothy Evans was hanged at Pentonville Prison.Three and a half years later, Christie, by now destitute and homeless, was arrested while loitering on the embankment near Putney Bridge in London.  And so begins one of the most infamous trials in British legal history, when Christie, a seemingly unassuming and quiet man is charged with the murder of his wife, Ethel.  A serial killer and necrophiliac, he is tried in the same court as Evans and in spite of his plea of insanity, he is destined to stand on the very same gallows at Pentonville Prison as Timothy Evans. 
   
  Starring RONALD PICKUP as John Reginald Halliday Christie with Jonathan Wrather, Terence Edmond, Trevor Nichols, John Baddeley, Robin Welch, Nicola Barber, Elizabeth Mansfield, Howard Ward and full supporting cast. 
   
  Also available as part of the Great British Trials Box Set, a fascinating eight-hour collection of true crime dramas, featuring the trials of Ruth Ellis, Dr Crippen, Timothy Evans & John Reginald Halliday Christie. 

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