Written by the son of Alexandre Dumas, The Lady of the Camellias is the story of Marguerite Gautier, a young courtesan, or kept woman, in Paris in the mid 1800's, and how she falls in love with a young man, Armand Duval, and then tries to escape from her questionable past. Unfortunately, it comes back to haunt her and she ends up returning to that life and dies painfully and alone, but with the knowledge that she was a good woman at heart.
Tom Holland - Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic aka Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic read by Read by Steven Crossley
On a dark January morning, Julius Caesar, the governor of Gaul, rode with his closest aides towards a river named the Rubicon, which marked the line of the frontier with Italy. A governor was forbidden to lead troops out of his allotted province – to break this severest of laws was tantamount to a declaration of civil war. Caesar was a gambler, however...
Binka is the most enormous furry and fun loving cat imaginable. He has three homes, which means three breakfasts, three lunches and three suppers, as none of the homes know about each other. Binka has friends too, there's Tango the puppy and Suki, who Binka likes a lot. But most of all Binka likes to eat because he is very, very greedy!
I've Got You Under My Skin • You Do Something to Me • Get Out of Town • All Through the Night • So in Love • At Long Last Love • Easy to Love • My Heart Belongs to Daddy • Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye • In the Still of the Night
A History of the Olympics by John Goodbody Read by Barry Davies
No sports event provides such a kaleidoscope of contrasting memories as the Olympic Games: the tiny gymnasts juxtaposed with the superheavyweight weightlifters; the speed of the sprinters with the endurance of the long-distance runners; the dexterity of the footballers and basketball players with the unremitting power of the wrestlers and judo fighters. Men and women, large and small: all have their place in the Games. REUPLOAD NEEDED
