16 - War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)

16 - War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)

It all starts with Anna Pávlovna Schérer, maid of honour and favourite of the Empress Márya Fëdorovna, getting bored. 587,287 words later, you get The Greatest Russian Novel of All Times. We give you the first 2000, and suggest that you find a quiet spot and read the rest, soon.

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Impressions of Cromer(Saffron Summerfield)

Impressions of Cromer(Saffron Summerfield)

Impressions of Cromer Saffron Summerfield With this soundscape I created a jaunty tune as a basic canvas to reflect and bounce the sounds of this joyful seaside town in high summer. To me, Cromer ...

28 Aug 20223min

20 - Nineteen-Hundred (Alessandro Baricco)

20 - Nineteen-Hundred (Alessandro Baricco)

Danny Boodman TD Lemon Nineteen-Hundred was born on a ship and on a ship he died. In between, he didn't play music, he played something else. And if you asked him what he thought about while he was pl...

29 Jun 20203min

19 - Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar)

19 - Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar)

In 1966, Gregory Rabassa won the first National Book Award to recognise the work of a translator for his English-language edition of Hopscotch. Julio Cortázar was so pleased with Rabassa's translation...

18 Jun 202023min

18 - Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren)

18 - Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren)

Infectively ridiculous, inevitably imaginative and charmingly irreverent Pippi is the kind of friend who lies all the time, but is also too funny to just drop. AND she's really, really, really strong....

16 Jun 202015min

17 - Cady's Life (Anne Frank)

17 - Cady's Life (Anne Frank)

As well as her diary, Anne Frank wrote so much more when she was hiding with her family in what she called "The Secret Annex". She wrote tales, rewrote paragraphs and sentences from other books, and s...

9 Jun 20205min

15 - The Paul Street Boys (Ferenc Molnár, read by George Szirtes)

15 - The Paul Street Boys (Ferenc Molnár, read by George Szirtes)

A Hungarian youth classic novel of war and friendship, here is an excerpt from chapter 1, read by a most illustrious guest: British/Hungarian poet and literary translator George Szirtes.

24 Mai 20209min

14 - The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)

14 - The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)

A stranger comes to town. Only, the town is Moscow and the stranger is the Devil. Oh, and there's a woman and a giant cat.

20 Mai 202030min

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