Anthony Trollope Audio

Lucy and Ayala Dormer are left penniless by the death of their parents. Ayala is taken in by their rich aunt Lady Tringle and Lucy by their poor uncle Mr Dosett. The girls find it hard to get used to their new surroundings.

Trollope combines humor with robust social commentary as he seizes on the great comic potential of the predicament of the Church of England in mid-Victorian society.

This second novel in the Chronicles of Barsetshire satirizes the struggle for ascendancy among the clergy in a cathedral city. The social intrigues of the many memorable characters vying for the vacant warden’s post provide a comic and ironic look at universal power struggles.

This is the second in Trollope’s ‘Barsetshire’ series of novels.

Here is a new audio edition of the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of Anthony Trollope's gently satirical tales of provincial life, available together in one download.

Frank Gresham and Mary Thorne are intent on marriage despite Marys seeming poverty. Only Doctor Thorne knows a secret that will make Mary acceptable to the disapproving middle-class society to which Frank belongs.

Mark Robarts, a young vicar, is newly arrived in the village of Framley. With ambitions to further his career, he seeks connections in the county's high society.

Sir Francis disturbs the still waters of this peaceful cathedral city, and the ripples spread.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man' in Rome in the turbulent last years of its republican government.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man' in Rome in the turbulent last years of its republican government.