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Classic Letters & Journals Box Set: A seven-volume collection performed by a distinguished cast in a dramatised setting Audiobook
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The Letters of JANE AUSTEN performed by FIONA SHAW
“Frequently indiscreet and occasionally acerbic or heartless, Jane Austen’s letters are always engaging. Fiona Shaw gives a sensitive reading.” (Daily Telegraph)
The Letters of LORD BYRON performed by ROBERT POWELL
“If you want to see into man’s soul, start with this self-portrait. It’s magnificent.” (The Guardian)
The Letters of CHARLOTTE BRONTË performed by IMOGEN STUBBS
“These provide a welcome addition to our collection of Bronteana... the reading is sympathetic and lively and makes most compelling listening.” (Bronte Society)
The Letters & Journals of LORD NELSON performed by CHARLES DANCE
“Letters and journals always make lively intimate listening. It is Nelson who opens up with almost shocking frankness in courteous, suddenly passionate love letters to Emma Hamilton.” (The Independent)
Leaves from the Highland Journals of QUEEN VICTORIA performed by VIRGINIA McKENNA
“...these journals offer us so many insights into the paraphernalia that accompanied the royal progress north... Virginia McKenna reads beautifully.” (Sunday Times)
SCOTT of the Antarctic performed by EDWARD FOX
“The audio’s editors have made a good selection, from the courageous good cheer and sea shanties at the beginning to the last entries, blizzard-bound in a tent 11 miles from the next depot.” (Sunday Times)
The Journals of DOROTHY WORDSWORTH performed by JENNY AGUTTER
“The English countryside at the end of the 18th century is brought almost photographically before us and Jenny Agutter brings her splendidly to life.” (Good Book Guide)
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Alan Ladd (1913–1964) was an award-winning American actor and film and television producer. He found cinematic success in the 1940s and 1950s, particularly in Westerns and film noir. He is especially known for his role in the movie Shane. His awards include a Picturegoer Award for Best Actor in 1947 for the movie This Gun for Hire, and in 1953 he was named Most Popular Male Star by Photoplay magazine. He contributed as an actor or producer in more than a hundred films and television shows over the course of his career.
John Baddeley is a British voice actor whose credits include many BBC radio productions, the narrator of the documentary The Death Train, and the voice of Winston Churchill in a 2003 PBS miniseries.
About the Narrators
Charles Dance, OBE, is an English actor, director, and screenwriter. He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1970s and went on to appear in many BBC television shows after his breakthrough role in The Jewel in the Crown. He most recently starred in the HBO Game of Thrones series.
Fiona Shaw, Earphones Award-winning narrator, is an Irish actress and theater director. She is best known for her role as Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter films and for her portrayal of Marnie Stonebrook in the HBO series True Blood. Also an accomplished classical actress, she was awarded an honorary CBE in 2001.
Imogen Stubbs made her name on stage with the Royal Shakespearean Company, notably as Desdemona in Othello, but she is probably best known to British audiences as Anna Lee, the private detective heroine on the 1990s TV series by the same name. She later played Sarah Spiller in the whimsical BBC kids series Big Kids. On film she had key roles in Sense and Sensibility and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. She and her former husband, director Sir Trevor Nunn, have two children together.
Jenny Agutter is an English film and television actress. She began her career as a child actor in the mid 1960s, starring in the BBC television series The Railway Children and the film adaptation of the same book. She moved on to adult roles with Walkabout, An American Werewolf in London, Logan’s Run, and Equus. Agutter is the winner of two AudioFile Earphones Awards.
Robert Powell has, in addition to playing Richard Hannay on screen in The Thirty-Nine Steps, appeared on television in Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage, Dalziel and Pascoe, and Holby City.
Virginia McKenna is an internationally acclaimed stage and screen actress, author, and wildlife activist who has stared in numerous films and television shows. She was voted one of the most inspirational people of all time in a London Daily Telegraph poll. She may be best known for her roles in the movies Born Free and Ring of Bright Water. Her performance in the film A Town Like Alice earned her a BAFTA Award for Best British Actress. She has also spent many years working as a wildlife campaigner. She is founder trustee of the Born Free Foundation, founded in 1984, the animal welfare and conservation charity whose CEO is her eldest son, Will Travers. For her contribution to the arts and animal welfare, she was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2004.
Bleak December Inc. is a multimedia company founded by Canadian actor and filmmaker Anthony D.P. Mann.