The Trial of Oscar Wilde (Dramatic Reading) by ANONYMOUS ( - ) Genre(s): Law Read by: Rob Marland in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 00 - Dramatis personae 00:01:48 - 01 - Section 1 00:26:10 - 02 - Section 2 01:18:32 - 03 - Section 3 02:05:36 - 04 - Section 4 02:21:22 - 05 - Section 5 03:03:11 - 06 - Section 6 03:13:19 - 07 - Section 7 In 1895 Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years' hard labor. This account of his two trials was compiled from the original shorthand court reports by an anonymous author. While a more complete account of the trial was published several years later, it omitted the more 'sensational' exchanges. This shorter version was clearly intended for a more prurient reader. In it we hear Wilde's famous defence of 'the love that dare not speak its name', and see the evidence mount as a succession of attractive young men step into the witness box to tell their tales. - Summary by Rob BoardCastNarrator: Rob BoardOscar Wilde: Edward KirkbyAlfred Taylor: Ted DelormeMr. C.F. Gill: Beth ThomasSir Edward Clarke: Kristin GjerløwMr. JP Grain: Michele FrySir Frank Lockwood: Elizabeth KlettMr. Horace Avory: OxenhandlerMr. Hall: Joseph TablerMr. Justice Charles: Richard ShippMr. Justice Wills: Zames CurranThe Foreman of the Jury: David OlsonFrank Atkins: Eden Rea-HedrickEdward Shelley: NewgatenovelistCharles Parker: Sandra SchmitAlfred Wood: RotgoldSidney Mavor: Anna SimonHugues Rebell: David BushhouseArthur Symons: Mark ChulskyBaron Macauley: ApneiaOctave Mirbeau: Herman RoskamsNewspaper reporter: Jessie YunJohn Milton: HannoriaEdited by: Rob Board More information: http://librivox.org/the-trial-of-oscar-wilde-dramatic-reading-by-anonymous/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Version 2) by Gerard Manley HOPKINS (1844 - 1889) Genre(s): Single author Read by: MichaelMaggs in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 00 - Author's Preface 00:11:29 - 01 - For a Picture of St. Dorothea 00:13:28 - 02 - Heaven—Haven 00:14:13 - 03 - Habit of Perfection 00:17:06 - 04 - Wreck of Deutschland 00:40:05 - 05 - Penmaen Pool 00:42:58 - 06 - Silver Jubilee 00:44:34 - 07 - God's Grandeur 00:46:03 - 08 - Starlight Night 00:47:37 - 09 - Spring 00:49:04 - 10 - Lantern out of Doors 00:50:34 - 11 - Sea and Skylark 00:52:10 - 12 - Windhover 00:53:54 - 13 - Pied Beauty 00:55:04 - 14 - Hurrahing in Harvest 00:56:43 - 15 - Caged Skylark 00:58:15 - 16 - In Valley of Elwy 00:59:45 - 17 - Loss of Eurydice 01:08:28 - 18 - May Magnificat 01:11:29 - 19 - Binsey Poplars 01:13:26 - 20 - Duns Scotus's Oxford 01:15:11 - 21 - Henry Purcell 01:17:39 - 22 - Peace 01:19:03 - 23 - Bugler's First Communion 01:23:21 - 24 - Morning Midday and Evening Sacrifice 01:24:53 - 25 - Andromeda 01:26:22 - 26 - Candle Indoors 01:27:54 - 27 - Handsome Heart 01:29:29 - 28 - At Wedding March 01:30:35 - 29 - Felix Randal 01:32:28 - 30 - Brothers 01:35:11 - 31 - Spring and Fall 01:36:27 - 32 - Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves 01:39:04 - 33 - Inversnaid 01:40:30 - 34 - 'As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame' 01:42:02 - 35 - Ribblesdale 01:43:30 - 36 - Leaden Echo and Golden Echo 01:49:19 - 37 - Blessed Virgin compared to Air we Breathe 01:56:04 - 38 - To what serves Mortal Beauty? 01:58:07 - 39 - 01:59:57 - 40 - 02:02:16 - 41 - 'No worst, there is none' 02:04:01 - 42 - Tom's Garland 02:06:21 - 43 - Harry Ploughman 02:08:24 - 44 - 'To seem stranger lies my lot, my life' 02:09:56 - 45 - 'I wake and feel fell of dark, not day' 02:11:40 - 46 - 'Patience, hard thing! hard thing but to pray' 02:13:21 - 47 - 'My own heart let me have more have pity on' 02:14:52 - 48 - That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of comfort of Resurrection 02:18:02 - 49 - St. Alphonsus Rodriguez 02:19:37 - 50 - 'Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend' 02:21:30 - 51 - To R. B. 02:23:03 - 52 - Summa 02:23:35 - 53 - 'What being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been' 02:24:36 - 54 - On Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People 02:27:53 - 55 - 'sea took pity: it interposed with doom' 02:28:30 - 56 - 02:30:25 - 57 - 'Hope holds to Christ mind's own mirror out' 02:31:40 - 58 - St. Winefred's Well 02:45:19 - 59 - 'What shall I do for land that bred me' 02:47:06 - 60 - 'times are nightfall, look, their light grows less' 02:48:23 - 61 - Cheery Beggar 02:49:25 - 62 - 'Denis, whose motionable, alert, most vaulting wit' 02:50:11 - 63 - 'furl of fresh-leaved dogrose' 02:51:36 - 64 - Woodlark 02:54:22 - 65 - Moonrise 02:55:35 - 66 - 'Repeat that, repeat' 02:56:22 - 67 - On a piece of music 02:56:45 - 68 - 'child is father to man' 02:57:32 - 69 - 'shepherd's brow, fronting forked lightning' 02:59:03 - 70 - To his Watch 03:00:19 - 71 - 'Strike, churl-hurl, cheerless wind' 03:01:03 - 72 - Epithalamion 03:05:38 - 73 - 'Thee, God, I come from, to thee go' 03:07:16 - 74 - 'To him who ever thought with love of me' Gerard Manley Hopkins was one of the most innovative of English Victorian poets, best known now for his vivid and original imagery of the natural world in verses such as 'The Windhover' and 'Pied Beauty'.Hopkins was a master of miniaturisation and condensation. His poetry is characterised by freshness, concentrated originality and often unconventional syntax in which words may have multiple shades of meaning. One of his most important innovations was what he called 'sprung rhythm', a style intended to be read aloud in which — like natural speech — the stressed syllables ‘spring' between a variable number of unstressed syllables, and in which the poetic lines are defined not by number of syllables but by number of stresses.At the age of 24 Hopkins converted to Catholicism and began training as a Jesuit priest. For seven years he wrote no poetry at all, believing that he was not called by God to do so. This period ended with a concentrated explosion of originality with 'The Wreck of the Deutschland', his greatest and longest poem which is dedicated to the memory of five nuns who lost their lives while attempting the sea passage from Germany to England in 1875. Sometimes considered ‘difficult' by readers who approach it in printed form, the poem's outlines become clearer when read aloud. It is divided into two sections, an introductory part in which the poet discourses with wonder on the sudden return of his poetic muse after so many fallow years; and a second part in which he describes with dramatic pace the fate of the ship as it hurtles in the storm and snow to its doom on the Kentish sands. At its heart the poem celebrates, in extrao... More information: https://librivox.org/poems-of-gerard-manley-hopkins-version-2-by-gerard-manley-hopkins/