Happy New Year, and Happy #FairyTaleFriday! This month's fairy tale is Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper, as told by Charles Perrault and translated by Charles Welsh. Music used is by Kevin MacLeod and can be downloaded from: https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/ Tracks: "Fairytale Waltz" "Some Amount of Evil" "Arcadia" "Scheming Weasel" "Sad Trio" "Royal Coupling" "Court of the Queen ..read more

It's this month's #FairyTaleFriday! This time it's Snow-White, as told by the Brothers Grimm, and translated by Lucy Crane. Watch out for poisoned apples! Music used is by Kevin MacLeod and can be downloaded from: https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/ Tracks: "Fairytale Waltz" "Some Amount of Evil" "Mysterioso March" "Krampus Workshop" "Arcadia ..read more

Introducing a new regular bonus episode... The first Friday of the month is #FairyTaleFriday! I'll be reading original versions of the fairy tales we all think we know... For this first one, I've chosen Hansel and Gretel, as told by the Brothers Grimm, and translated by Lucy Crane. I thought it was appropriately creepy since we're still in Halloween week! Music used is by Kevin MacLeod and can be downloaded from: https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/ Tracks: "Fairytale Waltz" "Darkest Child ..read more

The following is a sample from Episode 2 of Peter Pan & Wendy. In order to gain access to the full episode, please visit the following link and make a donation to Great Ormond Street Hospital: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/willowaudiobooks You will then be emailed a download link and access code. In 1929, JM Barrie unexpectedly and generously gifted his copyright of Peter Pan to Great Ormond Street Hospital. In recognition of the unprecedented generosity and the exceptional work of the hospital itself, the House of Lords sprinkled more fairy dust over GOSH in 1988 by voting overwh ..read more

?Coming soon!? By arrangement with and in support of Great Ormond Street Children’s Charity, Willow Audiobooks presents J M Barrie’s PETER PAN AND WENDY. This immersive audiobook will be available to download in return for a donation to Great Ormond Street Hospital, to whom J M Barrie left the rights to Peter Pan in perpetuity. Watch this space for more details ..read more

This month I had the absolute pleasure of guesting on Down the Yellow Brick Pod with Tara Tagliaferro and Emily Kay Shrader as they jumped into the third Oz book, "Ozma of Oz". I did this as an audiobook last year and loved it, so revisiting it with two self-proclaimed Oz nerds was an absolute joy. If you aren't aware of Tara and EmKay's podcast but you love Oz, you really need to listen - go back to their first season where they went through the original novel in detail, or their second season where they dissected the 1939 MGM movie and 1978's The Wiz. Down the Yellow Brick Pod: https://downt ..read more

This month I had the absolute pleasure of guesting on Down the Yellow Brick Pod with Tara Tagliaferro and Emily Kay Shrader as they jumped into the third Oz book, "Ozma of Oz". I did this as an audiobook last year and loved it, so revisiting it with two self-proclaimed Oz nerds was an absolute joy. If you aren't aware of Tara and EmKay's podcast but you love Oz, you really need to listen - go back to their first season where they went through the original novel in detail, or their second season where they dissected the 1939 MGM movie and 1978's The Wiz. Down the Yellow Brick Pod: https://down ..read more

Final part! Legend tells of the gigantic spectral hound that has haunted the Baskerville family for centuries. When Sir Henry, the last remaining heir, is due to move into the ancestral home on Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes remains coolly sceptical that he could be in any supernatural danger. Nevertheless, he sends his faithful friend Dr Watson to investigate the matter, and it soon becomes clear that there is more to the tale than meets the eye...  The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is in the public domain worldwide. This is a Willow Audiobook read by Stephen Alexander ..read more

Apologies for the delay, with no episode last week! I unfortunately got ill so my recording plans got scuppered. I made the decision to split the intended third and final part of this book into two episodes, so here is the now penultimate part, with Part 4 coming next weekend to conclude the story. Legend tells of the gigantic spectral hound that has haunted the Baskerville family for centuries. When Sir Henry, the last remaining heir, is due to move into the ancestral home on Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes remains coolly sceptical that he could be in any supernatural danger. Nevertheless, he sends ..read more

Readings of three poems to mark Remembrance Day.  "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae "Dulce et Decorum est" by Wilfred Owen "For the Fallen" by Laurence Binyon Recording of "The Last Post" sourced from Benboncan on Freesound.org and licensed under Creative Commons: https://freesound.org/people/Benboncan/sounds/62050 ..read more