MP3 Audios - Classic Literature

It is 1793, France, the year of the guillotine. Already Louis XVI has been sentenced to the scaffold, and terror reigns. In Ninety-Three, Victor Hugo’s inspired last novel, that tumultuous year’s events are woven into an epic masterpiece which captures brilliantly the moment that shaped the... More info...

In the Maheus family, the father and three of seven children work brutal hours to extract coal far beneath the earth amid hazards of landslides, fire, poisoned air, and poisoned health. Then comes the idea of a workers’ revolt, and soon the settlement is aflame. Zola chronicles the conflicts,... More info...

From the earliest poets of the 16th century to the present day. More info...

Plutarch's unique insight into the great men of the Ancient World through his biographies. More info...

A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Jane Austen's perceptive study of middle class morals and mores in the nineteenth century. More info...