What is King Lear really thinking of? What does his mysterious Fool dream about? What are the secret reasons for his daughters’ revenge on their father? What really lies behind the most famous lines in Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy?Michael Pennington’s performance as Lear in New York in 2014 was considered to be the equal of those of Paul Scofield and John Gielgud. This book - part memoir, part analysis, part adventure story - lights up the familiar text and the unique production ...

Jessica and Michael's odyssey unfolds among the stars, ancient sanctuaries, and eldritch realms. As spectral adversaries challenge them, they strive to awaken celestial dragons, battling darkness with the help of mystics. Their quest, laden with forbidden knowledge and personal stakes, is a tale of cosmic awakening where destiny's call is perilous yet compelling. In a twilight world at the edge of doom, an unlikely fellowship seeks mythical guardians to fight an encroaching darkness. Haunt...

Penguin Classics presents Joseph Conrad's Nostromo, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by Michael Pennington.'There is something in a treasure that fastens upon a man's mind. He will pray and blaspheme and still persevere, and will curse the day he ever heard of it, and will let his last hour come upon him unawares, still believing that he missed it only by a foot. He will see it ev...

Penguin Classics presents Hard Times, Charles Dickens's stark exposé of capitalist exploitation during the industrial revolution, now adapted for downloadable audiobook**. Read by the actor Michael Pennington.**Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from any young minds. As a consequence his obedient daughter Loui...

Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Michael Pennington, one of the founders of the English Shakespeare Company, known for his stage work with the RSC, and who played Carl Jung in the BBC drama, Freud. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Mark Cousins.One of Freud's central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious, from where...

A rousing gallop through the British Sporting Calendar of the last nine hundred years, as we eavesdrop on some of the most memorable and fascinating events in the colourful history of British sport. From sword fights to boxing, jousting to motor racing, football to cricket, told entirely in the words of those who were there."It is a highly enjoyable collection. Some pieces are just dazzling.” Independent on Sunday"An extraordinary series... deserves a medal. The readers are...

A lively jog through the British Sporting Calendar as we eavesdrop on some of the most memorable and fascinating events of the British at play. From marble games to water speed records, from fox hunting to ballooning and from cock fighting to the very British sport of… hopping, told entirely in the words of those who were there.It is a highly enjoyable collection. Some pieces are just dazzling - Independent on SundayAn extraordinary series... deserves a medal. The readers a...

An extraordinary series... deserves a medal. The readers are all excellent and many of them distinguished. - The SpectatorJoin us on a fascinating ramble through the towns and villages of the British Isles during the last four hundred years in the company of some of its most illustrious chroniclers, including Jane Austen, William Cobbett, Daniel Defoe, Sir Walter Scott, Virginia Woolf, Francis Kilvert, Celia Fiennes, Chips Channon, Fanny Burney and many others.It is a highl...

Experience first-hand the reality of life in the British Navy as we sail from the Viking invasion of Anglo Saxon England to a young sailor’s grief at the death of Lord Nelson, from the Spanish Armada to the Battle of Jutland and from organised press gangs to murderous mutinies. Told entirely in the words of those who were there.Performed by an outstanding company of award-winning actors including Dame Eileen Atkins, Cheryl Campbell, Nigel Davenport, Alex Jennings, Richard Johnson O...

A fascinating foray into British military history in two volumes, told entirely in the words of those who were there, as we join the men and women who took part.The ARMY GazetteFrom the Roman invasion of Britain to the retreat from Dunkirk, from the horrors of Culloden to the courage of Rourke’s Drift, we hear first-hand the stories behind the triumphs and tragedies that make up the history of the British Army.The NAVY Gazette

An extraordinary series... deserves a medal. The readers are all excellent and many of them distinguished. - THE SPECTATORThe TRAVELLER at HOME GazetteA fascinating ramble through the towns and villages of the British Isles during the last 400 years in the company of Jane Austen, William Cobbett, Daniel Defoe, James Lees Milne, Sir Walter Scott, Virginia Woolf and many more.The TRAVELLER ABROAD GazetteAn entertaining collection of traveller's tales as we explo...

The Gazette Collection is a vivid portrait of British life through the centuries, told entirely in the words of those who were there, performed by an outstanding company of award-winning actors and presented in six volumes.The NAVY Gazette: A voyage into the colourful events of the British Navy at Sea.The ARMY Gazette: A captivating foray into the turbulent events of the British Army at war.The SPORTS Gazette: A rousing gallop through the British sporting calendar.