Mike Read has narrated 5 audiobooks on Listento.it by 3 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is Rupert Brooke.
Persuasion (Seasons Edition: Summer)
Summary
“He had seen you indeed, before he came to Bath, and admired you, but without knowing it was you. So says my historian, at least. Is this true? Did he see you last summer or autumn, ‘somewhere down in the west,’ to use her own words, without knowing it to be you?” At 27, Anne Elliot is no longer considered young enough for worthy romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What transpires when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. A brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, Persuasion is, above all, a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities. A unique male narration of a beloved classic, Persuasion (Seasons Edition - Summer) is one of three titles available in June 2020. The summer season audio collection will also include The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Wonderland Collection.
Public Domain (P)2020 Thomas Nelson
Rupert Brooke
Summary
Rupert Brooke's greatest poetic works including "The Fish", "The Soldier", "The Old Vicarage", "Grantchester", and "Ding-Room Tea" are superbly melded here with testimony from acquaintances of Brooke's and a well-researched narrative by Mike Read. In this comprehensive production including poetry, interviews, and biography, we hear about such intreguing areas of Brooke's life as the women in his complicated love life and the inspiration and source of his numerous revered poems. Brooke died at 27 years old on his way to fight the Turks in Gallipoli, buried abroad so there truly is now "some corner of a foreign field that is forever England".
©1997 CSA Word (P)2008 CSA Word
Paul McCartney
Summary
When the most successful pop group in the world, The Beatles, disbanded in 1970, its four members went off to spearhead radically different projects, and none was more successful than Paul McCartney. Since those early days of freedom, McCartney has established himself as one of the most creative artists of his generation and a British show-business treasure. Celebrating his four decades of unparalleled success, this abridged version of Paul McCartney is a multi-faceted account of one of the world's most fascinating musicians.
©2003 Alan Clayson (P)2007 Audible.com
George Harrison
Summary
Often overlooked as a songwriter, despite penning The Beatles' standards "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun", and being the first of the four to release solo material, George Harrison embraced fame reluctantly, retiring from public life after the assassination of John Lennon. Launching a spectacular late-1980s comeback with The Traveling Wilburys, he returned as a household name for a new generation with the Anthology projects and 2000's best-selling 1 album. This abridged version of George Harrison chronicles the life of "the quiet one" right up to his recent unsuccessful battle with cancer.
©2003 Alan Clayson (P)2007 Audible.com
Forever England
Summary
Forever England explores Rupert Brooke’s life, from schooldays to the Great War, and in so doing builds a remarkable picture of a long-lost England and a generation’s descent into war. Brooke’s poems emerge dramatically from a tangled web of love, friendship, mental illness and politics. He reveals also the existence of a previously unrecorded love child from a South Seas romance. The WW1 legend was largely brought about by the words of one of his sonnets: "If I should die, think only this of me/That there’s some corner of a foreign field that is forever England". The poem, and all that it represented, became the focal point of a nation’s grief for its lost youth. Asked why Brooke was special, his Commander-in-Chief answered, "Is it because he was a hero? There were thousands? Is it because he looked a hero? There were a few. Is it because he had genius? There were others. But Rupert Brooke held all these three gifts of the gods in his hands. Forever England is written and narrated by Mike Read.
©2015 Mike Read (P)2020 Monkeynut Audiobooks