Tim Pigott-Smith Audio

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) will always be remembered for the character of Sherlock Holmes...

Dostoyevsky's famous and well-regarded 1880 novel, The Brothers Karamazov, is a tale of bitter family rivalries. Three brothers live in a small, typical Russian town…

The year was 1915. Equipment and food supplies were totally inadequate. After battling its way for six weeks through thousands of miles of pack ice and located only a day's sail from its destination...

The rich life Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is featured here: his work as a doctor, his novels and journalistic writings, his support of Spiritualism and his defense of fairies.

Eyewitness provides a rare and fascinating opportunity to hear the events of the century described by those who saw them happen....

Eyewitness provides a rare and fascinating opportunity to hear the events of the century described by those who saw them happen....

The gripping tragicomedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial Argentinean town tells the story of Charley Fortnum, the 'Honorary Consul', a whiskey-sodden figure of dubious authority....

Anthony Stevens argues that Jung's visionary powers and profound spirituality have helped many to find an alternative set of values to the arid materialism prevailing Western society....

In 1943, Heinrich Harrer, a youthful Austrian adventurer, mountaineer, and skier, escaped from a British internment camp in India and...

Here are more than 60 eyewitness accounts of notable historical events beginning with the Spartans at Thermopylae in 480 BC through to and including the Bombing of Hiroshima in 1945....