Audiobooks Narrated by Samuel West

From Socrates to Charles I, Danton to Lincoln - here are some of history's most significant figures with their most important speeches...

Love and tricks, friendship and skullduggery have leading roles in this light-hearted comedy. Benedick loves Beatrice, Claudio loves Hero, Don John hates Claudio, and Friar Francis loves them all.

John Keats' letters paint an unforgettably vivid and moving picture of the richly productive but also tragic final years of the poet's life. As he ponders on the nature of the writer's craft...

Here are some of the finest narrative poems in the English language, dating from an age of rich inspiration: the 19th century. All tell powerful stories of human passion and endeavor...

Naxos AudioBooks continues its new series of Great Poets – represented by a collection of their most popular poems on one CD – with John Keats.

I'm youth, I'm joy...I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. The story of the little boy who refused to grow up has captured the imagination of generations of children...

BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare....

The Bard's "dark" comedy in five acts concerns the efforts of Helena, daughter of a renowned physician, to make Bertram, the count of Rousillon, her husband.

Henry V, which dates from 1599, is the last in Shakespeare's series of plays based on English history. It is also...

Drawing from Proust's letters, essays, and fiction, de Botton transforms Proust's life and work into a no-nonsense guide to life.