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  African Queen

  Mr Punch Audiobooks

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  Full Cast Radio Drama 
  Set in 1915 on the treacherous rivers of war-torn Africa. Humphrey Bogart plays the gin sodden river trader, Charlie Allnut, who reluctantly agrees to help the prim missionary Rose Sayer, played in this radio version by Greer Garson, to travel down river on a hazardous journey and destroy a German gun boat. Humphrey Bogart won the 1951 Oscar for Best Actor, and again plays the uncouth captain of the tramp steamer in this special radio production.   
  This high-quality audiobook has been re-mastered and re-edited from the original radio broadcast.

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  Ages of Man

  William Shakespeare

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  Here are some of Shakespeare's finest speeches performed by one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of this century. It ranges from the youth of Jaques' introduction to life, 'All the world's a stage!' in ""As You Like It"" to the aged Prospero's goodbye to Ariel and Shakespeare's own farewell to his muse in ""The Tempest"": 'Now my charms are all o'erthrown!' Sir John's masterful reading brings delight to the ear and joy to the heart.

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  I hate to be the one to tell you...

  Zoë Walkington

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  It's a shame, isn't it, to have to rat on your neighbours? Upsetting to find out that both your husband and the dog have been telling you lies? And I hate to be the one to tell you this, but there are bad people everywhere, at large, going about their business. Financial insolvents on online-dating sites, contortionist plumbers with a point to prove, and a bloke named Barry, from Halifax, who is singlehandedly ruining the livelihoods of perfectly legitimate psychics.
  It's not all bad news though, there are sham marriages to look forward to, ducklings to be held captive by, and that dog, well, you can always put him up for sale. Life, I'm afraid, is based on nothing more than slippery moorings, and this debut pamphlet breaks the bad news with humour and a twist of darkness.
  The poems in this collection erupt with beauty and emotional resonance. These are graceful meditations on human relationships with each other and with themselves. The voice of the poet is strikingly unique, but there are also moments when it seems to be coming from within us, from the place of personal wonder: 'Outside a wood-pigeon coos monotonously / its slung together nest is hidden from view, / just like your knickers are, mostly, / and your feelings about your mother.' – Romalyn Ante, co-judge of the International Book & Pamphlet Competition

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  Born in England – Exploring...

  William Wordsworth, John Dryden,...

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  Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another.  Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. 
   
  Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. 
   
  In the volumes of this series, we take a look at poetry through the prism of individual regions of England, or sometimes more quaintly known as ‘Albion’, or ‘Blighty’, through the centuries of its gloried history. 
   
  England, despite its perception of reserve and under-statement has, in reality, strode the global stage at various time in many things, both good and bad, from Empire to long distance running. Here our focus in on its literature.  Famed for its fiction and dramas, it is equally admired for its plethora of gifted poets and the dazzling verse which has added so much to its artistic legacy.  These classic poets are wonders of their age and of their art.  Genius is written in their names. 
   
  In this volume we explore the poets of Cambridge.  A small city, with its famed university, with an enviable historical grandeur and roll-call of poets who dazzle, humble and inspire us all in ways that only a poet can.  Our poets include Christopher Marlowe, Lord Byron, Rupert Brooke, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Donne and the talents of very many others.

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  Top 10 Poets The - Nature - Five...

  William Wordsworth

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  The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives.  Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives. 
   
  But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poets, who brim with talent and verse, on a range of subjects and themes that we can all enjoy. 
   
  The world of nature is often the first resource a poet has for muse and inspiration.  Nature has infinite ways of both revealing herself and putting together landscapes of majesty and wonder in everything from a flower to the universe. 
   
  1 - The Top 10 Poets - Nature - An Introduction 
  2 - To the Daisy by William Wordsworth 
  3 - Daffodils by William Wordsworth 
  4 - The Kitten and the Falling Leaves by William Wordsworth 
  5 - It Was an April Morning Fresh and Clear by William Wordsworth 
  6 - My Hearts Leaps Up by William Wordsworth 
  7 - from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman 
  8 - Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone by Walt Whitman 
  9 - Warble Of Lilac Time By Walt Whitman 
  10 - A July Afternoon By The Pond by Walt Whitman 
  11 - A Carol of Harvest for 1867 by Walt Whitman 
  12 - In Drear Nighted December by John Keats 
  13 - Ode To A Nightingale by John Keats 
  14 - Ode to Autumn by John Keats 
  15 - On the Sea by Keats 
  16 - Lines Written in the Highlands After a Visit to Burn's Country by John Keats 
  17 - How the Old Mountains Drip with Sunset by Emily Dickinson 
  18 - Nature, The Gentlest Mother by Emily Dickinson 
  19 - Angels, in the Early Morning by Emily Dickinson 
  20 - I Have a Bird in Spring by Emily Dickinson 
  21 - Two Butterflies Went Out at Noon by Emily Dickinson 
  22 - Nature's Hymn to the Deity by John Clare 
  23 - All Nature Has a Feeling by  John Clare 
  24 - The Lament of Swordy Well by John Clare 
  25 - On a Lane in Spring by John Clare 
  26 - Little Trotty Wagtail by John Clare 
  27 - Snow Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  28 - An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  29 - Woods In Winter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  30 - By the Seaside - The Fire of Driftwood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  31 - The Sound of The Sea by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  32 - In Vision I Roamed by Thomas Hardy 
  33 - The Calf by Thomas Hardy 
  34 - The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy 
  35 - Last Week in October by Thomas Hardy 
  36 - To Flowers from Italy by Thomas Hardy 
  37 - Where Go the Boats by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  38 - The Canoe Speaks by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  39 - Autumn Fires by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  40 - The Cow by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  41 - The Gardener by Robert Louis Stevenson  
  42 - Berrying by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  43 - May-Day by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  44 - The Snow Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  45 - Water by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  46 - Threnody by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  47 - All Things Will Die by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  48 - The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  49 - The Owl by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  50 - Spring by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  51 - Locksley Hall by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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  More Than Weeds

  L Kiew

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  More Than Weeds, the debut poetry collection by L. Kiew, explores the language of migration and how it is used in relation to plant and animal species, as well as peoples. These knowledgeable and verdant poems draw deeply on botanical and ecological detail and reveal secret histories thriving in the gaps between definitions; here are precious seedlings, unforced flowers, tongues of leaves, tangled roots and rhizomes.
  With roots in decolonialising botany and horticulture movements, and influenced by the impact of the climate crisis and regenerative gardening practices, Kiew's poetry is alive and thronging with the interconnected nature of things – and the formative forces of nurture, family, food, refuge and love. Human and plant voices speak for themselves of experiences of belonging and displacement, as well as encounters with violence. These vivid poems that ask us to scrutinise what is really contained or constrained by demarcations – whether those of weed or wildflower, or of borders and hostile environments.

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