Audiobooks Narrated by Robert Powell

Opera, said MoliƩre, is the most expensive noise known to man. From its beginnings in the 16th Century, through to today when there...

From Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the pop album charts, here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music and the composers who have sought to express in music the deepest of human feelings and emotions.

Volume 2, covering the years 1919-1939, looks at a Britain ravaged by war and at the mercy of millions of striking workers....

This is the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language....

Far eastern Tales is a collection of Maugham's short stories, all born of his experiences in Malaysia, Singapore, and other outposts of the former British Empire....

Lawrenceā€™s style is bold, intimate and inventive and he always has the capacity to shock.

Volume 5, covering the years 1979-1999, looks at the Thatcher years, the Falklands War and the greatest ever Royal Wedding....

Volume 3, covering the years 1939-1959, takes a global perspective....

Volume 1, covering the years 1901-1919, looks at the impact of the death of Queen Victoria, the growth of the Suffragette Movement, changes in the capital....

Volume 3, covering the years 1939-1959, takes a global perspective....