Desert Island Discs celebrates its 70th birthday in 2012. Since the programme's deviser Roy Plomley interviewed comedian Vic Oliver in 1942, nearly 3000 distinguished people have been stranded on...

Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity, the only solace of her life being her brother Charles. But he feels equally constrained by the drudgery of his work at the East India...

Lionel Asbo - a very violent but not very successful young criminal - is going about his morning duties in a London prison when he learns that he has just won £139,999,999.50 on the National...

Nicholas Nickleby' combines comedy and tragedy in a tale of triumph over adversity, where Nickleby succeeds despite social injustice, in a story that mirrors Dickens' own rise from poverty to...

Twenty years ago, Henry Evans met Francesca Chisholm whilst backpacking around India. He loved her, but when her father died, Henry left it too late to change his travel plans and she left without...

To Paul Dombey, business and money are everything. He runs his family as he runs his firm: coldly, calculatingly and commercially. The only person he cares for is his little son, while his...

Enjoy the best of Lakeland poets Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey in this specially selected anthology, including The Two-Part Prelude, Wordsworth's own shortened version of his great...

It is 1983, and young Nick Guest has moved into the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine. Nick had...

An anthology of over fifty classic children's poems, read by some of our finest actors. Full of fun, excitement and magic, the poems in this collection are guaranteed to spark the imagination and...