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Humour and Madness: Early Restoration Comedies
- Nine BBC Radio Full Cast Productions Including The Rover, The Country Wife and More
- Written by: William Wycherley, Aphra Behn, John Dryden,
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Prunella Scales, Maggie Smith,
- Length: 16 hrs and 32 mins
- Original Recording
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Raunchy, risqué and rebellious, early Restoration comedies were a breath of fresh air for 17th century theatregoers. With Charles II restored to the throne in 1660, Oliver Cromwell's ban on stage performances was rescinded, and for the first time, women were invited to tread the boards as actresses. Playwrights developed a new style of social comedy, packed with amorous escapades, bawdy humour, wicked wit and sexual innuendo. This scintillating anthology showcases six leading lights of early Restoration drama.
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Humour and Madness: Early Restoration Comedies
- Nine BBC Radio Full Cast Productions Including The Rover, The Country Wife and More
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Prunella Scales, Maggie Smith, Jonathan Pryce, Harriet Walter, Frances Jeater, Denys Hawthorne, Carleton Hobbs, Anna Massey, full cast
- Length: 16 hrs and 32 mins
- Release Date: 16-11-23
- Language: English
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Oroonoko or The Royal Slave
- Written by: Aphra Behn
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave is a short work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn (1640-1689), published in 1688 by William Canning and reissued with two other fictions later that year. It was also adapted into a play. The eponymous hero is an African prince from Coramantien who is tricked into slavery and sold to British colonists in Surinam where he meets the narrator. Behn's text is a first-person account of his life, love, rebellion, and execution.
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Oroonoko or The Royal Slave
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Release Date: 10-01-22
- Language: English
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Emperor of the Moon
- Written by: Aphra Behn
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Step into a whimsical world with Emperor of the Moon, a delightful restoration farce by a talented female playwright. Join Doctor Baliardo, a Neapolitan philosopher utterly captivated by the Moons mysteries. His obsession leads him to imagine a lunar realm, complete with its own inhabitants and governance, causing him to reject the suitors of his beloved daughter Elaria and niece Bellemante—two charming nephews of the Viceroy—believing them mere earthly beings. Experience the humor and intrigue as love battles against the backdrop of philosophical folly.
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Intrigue and Satire: Later Restoration Comedies
- 11 BBC Radio Full Cast Productions including The Recruiting Officer and The Way of the World and more
- Written by: Aphra Behn, Susanna Centivre, William Congreve,
- Narrated by: Celia Imrie, Sian Thomas, Alex Jennings,
- Length: 19 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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A dazzling collection of comedies from the later Restoration period England's 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688 and the reign of new monarchs William and Mary signified a turning point for Restoration comedy with laws being passed to restrict playwrights' freedoms. The latter years are marked by a...
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Intrigue and Satire: Later Restoration Comedies
- 11 BBC Radio Full Cast Productions including The Recruiting Officer and The Way of the World and more
- Narrated by: Celia Imrie, Sian Thomas, Alex Jennings, Sheila Hancock, Frances Barber, Indira Varma, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Josie Lawrence, Adjoa Andoh, Hugh Bonneville, Kris Marshall, Nicholas Parsons, Peter Eyre, Full Cast
- Length: 19 hrs and 6 mins
- Release Date: 16-11-23
- Language: English
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The Poetry of Aphra Behn
- Written by: Aphra Behn
- Narrated by: Libby Brunton, Ghizela Rowe, Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Aphra Behn was a prolific and well-established poet and playwright but facts about her life remain scant and difficult to confirm. What can safely be said is that Aphra Behn is regarded as a key English playwright and a major figure in Restoration theatre. Her poetry is now far more appreciated and seen as a breakthrough for women of the 17th Century and beyond. Her first play, ‘The Forc’d Marriage’, was staged in 1670, and thereafter many followed, including her later comic works, which were more commercially successful.
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The Poetry of Aphra Behn
- Narrated by: Libby Brunton, Ghizela Rowe, Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Release Date: 05-07-23
- Language: English
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Oroonoko
- Written by: Aphra Behn
- Narrated by: Rodney Louis Tompkins
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was an English playwright, poet, translator, and fiction writer from the Restoration era. Oroonoko (1688) is a unique early example of the novel genre. It employs a first-person narrative from a female perspective and addresses some of the controversial political, economic, and social issues of the time. The injustices of the slave trade are exposed through the author’s graphic account of the cruel realities of life in the English colonies.
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Oroonoko
- Narrated by: Rodney Louis Tompkins
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
- Release Date: 17-07-20
- Language: English
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Oroonoko
- Penguin Classics
- Written by: Aphra Behn
- Narrated by: Isabel Adomakoh-Young, Kristin Atherton - introduction
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko's noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his destruction. Inspired by Aphra Behn's visit to Surinam, Oroonoko reflects the author's romantic view of native peoples as noble savages in 'the first state of innocence, before man knew how to sin'.
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Oroonoko
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Isabel Adomakoh-Young, Kristin Atherton - introduction
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Release Date: 04-09-20
- Language: English
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The Female Poets of the Seventeeth Century, Volume 1
- Written by: Anne Bradstreet, Aphra Behn, Anne Kingsmill Finch
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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For much of history women have been seen rather than heard. Their thoughts, their views have lain too long in the shadows of our culture. Whilst this traditional view has some merit, it is not entirely accurate. Here, gathered together in these volumes, we can, through their words, experience their lives; we can hear their voices, their thoughts, joys, loves and losses. For the female poet there was always the confining hand of men to instruct that their time was perhaps spent more productively elsewhere. These lines, these gilded verses, often protest otherwise.
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The Female Poets of the Seventeeth Century, Volume 1
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Release Date: 01-04-19
- Language: English
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Oroonoko
- Written by: Aphra Behn
- Narrated by: Clare Wille
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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A vivid love story and adventure tale, Oroonoko is a heroic slave narrative about a royal prince and his fight for freedom. The eponymous hero, Oroonoko, deemed royalty in one world and slave in another, is torn from his noble status and betrayed into slavery in Surinam, where he is reduced to chains, fetters, and shackles. But his high spirit and admirable character will not be suppressed.
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Oroonoko
- Narrated by: Clare Wille
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Release Date: 23-05-17
- Language: English
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Oroonoko
- Written by: Aphra Behn
- Narrated by: Susan Lyons
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Oroonoko, the grandson of an African king, is madly in love with Imoinda, the daughter of the king's general. When the king - who is also in love with Imoinda - catches wind of their affair, he sells Imoinda as a slave. This betrayal sets off a chain of events that carries unforeseen consequences for everybody involved. Aphra Behn's Oroonoko has been hailed as one of the first great English novels and remains a classic of historical fiction.
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Oroonoko
- Narrated by: Susan Lyons
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Release Date: 16-03-17
- Language: English
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The Poetry of the 17th Century - Volume 1
- Written by: Aphra Behn, John Donne, John Dryden
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner
- Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The Elizabethan age had almost departed, and the world had seen the rise of great European empires that continued to hunt with mischief between themselves as they traversed the globe in search of more spoils and territories. In England the Civil War had brought about the will of Parliament and the replacement of the Crown as the governing body. But with these Puritan times, and the subsequent Restoration, poetry had entered a golden age. John Milton, John Dryden and Ben Jonson are but a few of the luminaries whose great verse followed in the wake of the immortal William Shakespeare.
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The Poetry of the 17th Century - Volume 1
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, Gideon Wagner
- Series: The Poetry of the 17th Century, Book 1
- Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
- Release Date: 23-04-20
- Language: English
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3 Stories - Blind Characters
- Written by: Mikhail Lermontov, Aphra Behn, Ernest Bramah
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. From their pens to your your ears.
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3 Stories - Blind Characters
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
- Release Date: 18-02-25
- Language: English
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