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Michael Rosen is one of Britain's best-loved children's writers, and the author of classics including We're Going on a Bear Hunt, Don't Put Mustard in the Custard, and No Breathing in Class.

We asked the former Children's Laureate for his top poetry-writing tips for kids, and here's what he had to say.

1. Read other people's poems

'It's really good to read or listen to poems by other people, and then daydream about how you could make them yours.

' Could you make your own poem sound like the one you've just read, or write a poem with the same theme, or even copy a line of it to inspire your own writing?

'Some of my favourite children's poets are Roger McGough, Brian Patten, Sarah Crossan, Joseph Coelho and Carol Ann Duffy.'

2. Use the internet

' There are thousands and thousands of poems online that could inspire you to write your own poetry.

'On YouTube, there are lots of videos of poets performing their own poems and other people's. You can put in your favourite poet's name, or type in a description like "funny poems" or "sad poems."

'Have a look at my YouTube channel, Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen: I've made over 200 videos that you can watch.'

3. Be a scavenger

'If you want to write poetry, you need to look at the world around you. You could start from something you've seen, or something you've heard someone say, or something you remember.

'Think of yourself as being like a crow, going about looking for things you can take for yourself.'

4. Use repetition

'Repetition is a brilliant way to pull a poem together.

'Rhyming is a form of repetition, but you don't have to write poems that rhyme.

'You could make the last line of the poem the same as the first line, or have a little phrase that you repeat, or even repeat a chunk of three or four lines.

'When you use repetition, it gives your poem a shape and meaning.'

5. Compare things to other things

' Poets always describe things by saying they're like something else. For example, one of Shakespeare's most famous poems describes someone as being 'fairer than a summer's day.

'You can compare things by using phrases such as "like," "as lovely as," "more than" and "less than." These are called similes and metaphors.

'Look very closely at things until you find something that it's similar to: you might cut an apple in half and think it looks like a cross-section of the world.

' Remember, comparisons don't always have to be beautiful and nice: you might think that a crow looks like a wounded soldier.'

6. Make your audience laugh

'Poetry can be a way of telling jokes. For example, limericks are usually very funny.

'One way to make people laugh is to steal the shape of your poem from something unexpected.

' You could use the format of the instructions for assembling a piece of furniture to write a poem about how to have a bath, for example.

'Or you could use the structure of your school rules, or the Once upon a time shape of fairy tales, or even the Highway Code.

'When you surprise people by mucking around with things that are quite formal, they'll find your poem funny.'

7. Think about how it sounds

'Another good way to write poetry is to make it sound like the thing you're describing.

'Robert Louis Stevenson's poem, From a Railway Carriage, has a rhythm that sounds like the wheels of a train going clickety-clack, clickety-clack.

' If you were writing about the school dinner hall, you could use short sentences that interrupt each other to make it sound noisy and busy.

'If you were writing about a river, you could make your sentences long and flowing.

'Your poem might even end up sounding like a song or a rap!'

8. Let your pen do the talking

'I got into writing poetry for pleasure when I was about 15, when I discovered that I could talk with my pen.

' Talking with your pen means thinking about something you want to say, and using it as the starting point for your poem.

'It could be a feeling, like "I'm lost" or "I'm fed up," or it could be a memory: one of my first memories was of sitting on the beach when I was three years old, and I turned it into a poem.

'The moment you start talking with your pen, you have something to write about.'

9. Make time to write outside school

'At school, you might be told off if you're daydreaming. Or you might be told you have to write a haiku or an acrostic poem, which can sometimes be hard.

'But when you're writing poetry at home, you never have to worry about being right or wrong. You can write about things that interest you, or you can do things that you might not be allowed to do at school, like ending your poem with a question.

'You're even allowed to daydream: a lot of great poems start out that way.'
Michael Rosen is the author of over 50 books for children and adults, including What is Poetry: The Essential Guide to Reading and Writing Poems (Walker Books, £6.99).

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- check out our favourites We have over 1,000 books with videos, lesson plans and activity sheets! here or search for your favourite book and see what's available on the book page.

Involve the grandparents - call/skype grandparents and ask them to provide the first line of a story. The kids then sit down and write for 30 minutes then phone them back to read out their story.

Get the kids to write a diary - these are extraordinary times and this will help not only to record these crazy days but writing things down can also help with anxiety.

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Audiobooks - we have a list here of some of our favourite audiobooks but Borrowbox, which are ebooks and audiobooks loaned out by your local library should be your new best friend. Audible have also put a small selection for free and there are apps like Cloudaloud which have some free titles too.

Podcasts - Soundcloud (where you can listen to extracts, author readings, kids interviewing authors and more)

Videos - We're adding videos to our book pages (see this author video for The Train to Impossible Places and a gorgeous video review of Captain Whiskers from one of our Video Panel Reviewers)

Publisher Youtube Channels: See Walker Books, Usborne, Dorling Kindersley, Nosy Crow, HarperCollins Children's, Puffin Books, Egmont Publishing, Macmillan Children's Books, Hachette Children's Books, Ladybird Books (including Peppa Pig), Little Tiger Press, Lit Film Fest are releasing a daily video or writing tips.

Author Youtube Videos: Michael Rosen, Andy Stanton reads Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire, Abi Elphinstone, Jeff Norton, Philip Ardagh,

Illustrator Youtube Videos: Steven Lenton, Nick Sharratt, Tom McLaughlin

Toppsta Youtube channel: We've recently launched our Toppsta Youtube channel and we'll be sharing video reviews from children and 'Look Inside' videos too.

Organisations with free resources to use at home:

But also check out BBC Teach, Authorfy (login required), World Book Day, CLPE (Centre for Literacy in Primary Education), British Library, Scholastic Resource Bank, The School Run, Booktrust, Literacy Shed, KeyStage2Literacy, Literacy Trust, Lovemybooks and Caryl Hart is doing an amazing job collecting together all the picture book resources over on her website.

Creative Writing/Drawing: Pobble (a picture a day to inspire drawing and writing. Ask your kids to find their favourite book and ask them to either draw the existing cover or a new version. Author Sinead O'Hart is running creative challenges on her website for kids to enter and win books.

Twitter: if you're on Twitter we are running a live Twitter chat every weekday at 10am where you can find out more about new books, authors and illustrators. You can also follow the hashtags #FreeBookResources #UnitedByBooks #lockdownkidlit

Facebook: Author Events Online

Instagram: Lydia Monks, Sandra Dieckmann,

Run a sponsored read - and get books into the hands of children who need them most. Take a look at Readathon and the brilliant work they do

Check if your favourite author has their own website - so many have brilliant resources you can download for free from their website: see Joshua Siegal, Joseph Coelho, Tom Palmer, Peter Bunzl, Robin Stevens, Andy Shepherd, Will Mabbitt, Kieran Larwood & more

Great illustrator websites with free resources: Nick Sharratt, Sarah McIntyre

Ditto for great publishers who have tons of resources over on their websites. Check out the advice and free resources for dyslexic readers on the Barrington Stoke website, Walker Picture Book Party, Nosy Crow Activities, Usborne Play & Learn (coming soon), Chicken House, Piccadilly Press, Lonely Planet Kids, Child's Play, Lion Hudson and more

ebooks - Register for Borrowbox so you can borrow ebooks from your local library and Project Gutenberg has has more than 60,000 ebooks available for free

Bedtime Stories - Check out Cbeebies Bedtime Stories

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When the coronavirus pandemic quarantine period began in Spring/Summer 2020, I realised that lots of people were going to find themselves at home with their children for several weeks/months looking for things to do. So I decided to post a draw-along video every Tuesday and Thursday that parents could watch with their kids and, hopefully, make some nice pictures. They have proved very popular, garnering millions of views across the world. On 21 May 2020 we broke the Guinness World Record for the largest online art lesson when 45,611 households drew a whale with me. From September 2020 lockdown gradually began to ease and kids started going back to school, so I decided to move the #DrawWithRob video slot to Saturdays at 10am BST/GMT so that kids can join in with my Saturday Art Club. And then in August 2021 as life returned to (something like) normal, the videos began to be released slightly more sporadically. But I'm still going! Keep an eye on my social feeds or sign up to my newsletter here to find out when the next video will be released.

Here are all of the videos (scroll down the page). Feel free to watch and share them with anybody and everybody. I'd love to see the results, so please send me your pictures on social media using the hashtag #DrawWithRob. I am @RobBiddulph on Twitter, @rbiddulph on Instagram and robbiddulphauthor on Facebook.
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I'm delighted to say that DRAW WITH ROB is now an incredible activity book series (every page features perforated edges so you can easily tear out and display your art). The first book is a Sunday Times number one bestseller, the winner of the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award 2020 and was shortlisted for Children's Illustrated/Non-fiction Book of The Year at the British Book Awards 2021. The second book, Draw With Rob at Christmas, is also a bestseller and was the WHSmith Book of the Month for November 2020. The third book, Draw With Rob: Build A Story, the fourth book, Draw With Rob: Monster Madness, the fifth book, Draw With Rob: Amazing Animals, and the sixth book, Draw With Rob at Halloween, are (guess what) bestsellers too! They are all available to order here.

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When the coronavirus pandemic quarantine period began in Spring/Summer 2020, I realised that lots of people were going to find themselves at home with their children for several weeks/months looking for things to do. So I decided to post a draw-along video every Tuesday and Thursday that parents could watch with their kids and, hopefully, make some nice pictures. They have proved very popular, garnering millions of views across the world. On 21 May 2020 we broke the Guinness World Record for the largest online art lesson when 45,611 households drew a whale with me. From September 2020 lockdown gradually began to ease and kids started going back to school, so I decided to move the #DrawWithRob video slot to Saturdays at 10am BST/GMT so that kids can join in with my Saturday Art Club. And then in August 2021 as life returned to (something like) normal, the videos began to be released slightly more sporadically. But I'm still going! Keep an eye on my social feeds or sign up to my newsletter here to find out when the next video will be released.

Here are all of the videos (scroll down the page). Feel free to watch and share them with anybody and everybody. I'd love to see the results, so please send me your pictures on social media using the hashtag #DrawWithRob. I am @RobBiddulph on Twitter, @rbiddulph on Instagram and robbiddulphauthor on Facebook.
Oh, and please subscribe to my YouTube channel too.

I'm delighted to say that DRAW WITH ROB is now an incredible activity book series (every page features perforated edges so you can easily tear out and display your art). The first book is a Sunday Times number one bestseller, the winner of the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award 2020 and was shortlisted for Children's Illustrated/Non-fiction Book of The Year at the British Book Awards 2021. The second book, Draw With Rob at Christmas, is also a bestseller and was the WHSmith Book of the Month for November 2020. The third book, Draw With Rob: Build A Story, the fourth book, Draw With Rob: Monster Madness, the fifth book, Draw With Rob: Amazing Animals, and the sixth book, Draw With Rob at Halloween, are (guess what) bestsellers too! They are all available to order here.

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In this video I'll show you how to draw Cyril the squirrel from the picture book 'The Squirrels Who Squabbled' written by Rachel Bright.
Please share your squirrel drawings with me using #drawwithjimfield Filmed and Edited by Sandy Foucherand Music by Jim Field

LEARN TO DRAW DOG FROM THE 'OI!' SERIES

Oi! Draw along with me in this simple step by step video. In this video I'll show you how to draw Dog from the 'Oi!' series written by Kes Gray and illustrated by me.
Please share your DOGS with me using #drawwithjimfield Filmed and Edited by Sandy Foucherand Music by Jim Field

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QU CK! Learn to draw Quentin the duck from the picture book 'Quick Quack Quentin' written by Kes Gray and illustrated by me. Please share your QUENTIN drawings with me using #drawwithjimfield Filmed and Edited by Sandy Foucherand Music by Jim Field Oi! Learn to draw the Aardvark from the forthcoming picture book 'Oi Aardvark!'

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Oh no! The dinosaurs tried to steal the cavemen's underpants and now they're all mixed up. Can you help the cavemen find their underpants?

Try to figure the puzzle out in the least amount of moves and time.
Colour In Dino Colour In Pants DesignUnderpants

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Download and print your very own S cariest Thing of All postcard!

Just click on the images, print them out and stick together with glue.

Download this fun-filled activity pack to keep you and your children busy on a rainy day.

This fantastic pack includes a wordsearch, colouring in sheets, make your own Pip mask, a wild wood nature collage and more.

The Scariest Thing of All Postcard

Debi Gliori Activity Pack

What's the Time, Mr Wolf? book plate & posters

Click on the images to download and print your own What's the Time, Mr Wolf? book plate and posters!

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Activity sheets - Adam and Charlotte Guillain

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Can you take part in the Lego challenge?

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Can you make a Brightstorm, Darkwhispers, or Wildspark inspired lego creation? You could create a sky-ship design, 4 Archangel street, the domes of the Lontown Geographical Society, the Slumps, scenes from the books such as the Everlasting Forest and thought-wolves, the South Polaris mountain caves, the Citadel, the amazing city of Darkwhispers ( if you've read it you will know!), the jungle tree-top or bubble houses! From Wildspark you could create one of the transports such as the Gigantrack or the pneumerator, or some of the places such as Deakins Entire, Medlock main square, even the Factorium itself! You could even create your own inventions that would be suited to either of the worlds.

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Home learning support - Vashti Hardy Author

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Can you make a Brightstorm, Darkwhispers, or Wildspark inspired lego creation? You could create a sky-ship design, 4 Archangel street, the domes of the Lontown Geographical Society, the Slumps, scenes from the books such as the Everlasting Forest and thought-wolves, the South Polaris mountain caves, the Citadel, the amazing city of Darkwhispers ( if you've read it you will know!), the jungle tree-top or bubble houses!

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Fun Stuff - Swapna Haddow - Children's Author

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Book readings on Tuesdays and Thursdays

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The Working Mind and Drawing Hand of Oliver Jeffers

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Thank you for all the lovely comments on today's #garethwrites video. I'll do another one next week. If you REALLY enjoyed it - & you aren't in financial meltdown - you can show your appreciation by buying a signed copy of one my books here: 
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Books & Signed Editions by Gareth P. Jones

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Gareth P. Jones is a winner of the Blue Peter Book Award, and banjolele minstrel extraordinaire. He creates lively interactive performances for students, peppered with irreverent humour, unbridled energy and original songs inspired by his books. In between writing his 30+ books, and the songs to go with them, Gareth al

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Following a slew of brilliant talented illustrators putting up How to Draw videos, I'm following suit with a series of How to Write videos. In this first one, we see how to write an amazing opening sentence. Please feel free to write along with me. 
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https://t.co/WYogUQh2w4 https://t.co/dbhyx7Vtrl

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#garethwrites https://t.co/tjCFq1pwYV

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There are a lot of schools who read Floodland, especially in years 5 and 6 - and with the current situation, I know there are some of you who are halfway through the book, but who, without sufficient copies for every pupil, are unable to finish from home.

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I'm on the website! How quick & easy was that? So many exciting resources, I don't know where to start... - Miss Cleveland, Cannon Park Primary School, Coventry

Cannon Park Primary School

Just signed up to Authorfy and it's just fabulous! Stuffed full of inspiring authors and well thought-out lessons. It's a must for every school. - Jo Clarke, School Librarian

Whitchurch CofE Primary School

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I'm on the website! How quick & easy was that? So many exciting resources, I don't know where to start... - Miss Cleveland, Cannon Park Primary School, Coventry Cannon Park Primary School Just signed up to Authorfy and it's just fabulous! Stuffed full of inspiring authors and well thought-out lessons.

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Resources for parents to help those aged 0-11

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For parents to help their children develop vital communication and literacy skills from birth to age eleven.

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Family zone - lots of activities

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Making a shopping list together will encourage your little one to speak about their favourite meals and foods.

Sit down with your child and start making a list of their favourite foods. Look for pictures of the things on the list, then cut out pictures and labels and stick it next to the item on the list.

Chat as you go and ask your child lots of questions like "What do you like for breakfast?" or "What's your favourite?"

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Words for Life | National Literacy Trust

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Sharing stories from a range of authors

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Online video workshops, readings and question and answer sessions for a range of ages

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Donate to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

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"Goodnight With Dolly" features Dolly Parton reading a series of Imagination Library books all carefully chosen for their appropriate content at this moment in time. Dolly welcomes the viewers and introduces the title, author and illustrator. Snuggled in bed with her Imagination Library book, Dolly shares stories that are just right for this moment in time. The readings are a mixture of Dolly and the interior pages of the books. The books include "There's a Hole in the Log on the Bottom of the Lake" by Loren Long, "Llama Llama Red Pajama" by Anna Dewdney, "I Am a Rainbow" by Dolly Parton, "Pass It On" by Sophy Henn, "Stand Tall Molly Lou Mellon" by Patty Lovell, "Violet the Pilot" by Steve Breen, "Max & The Tag-Along Moon" by Floyd Cooper, "Last Stop on Market Street" by Matt de la Peña, "Coat of Many Colors" by Dolly Parton, and of course, "The Little Engine That Could" by Watty Piper.

The series is a personal gift from Dolly to all families. Free of charge but not free from obligation as the message will be to pass on the love and keep hope alive because we are all Together, You and I.

"This is something I have been wanting to do for quite a while, but the timing never felt quite right. I think it is pretty clear that now is the time to share a story and to share some love. It is an honor for me to share the incredible talent of these authors and illustrators. They make us smile, they make us laugh and they make us think." - Dolly Parton

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"Goodnight With Dolly" features Dolly Parton reading a series of Imagination Library books all carefully chosen for their appropriate content at this moment in time. Dolly welcomes the viewers and introduces the title, author and illustrator. Snuggled in bed with her Imagination Library book, Dolly shares stories that are just right for this moment in time.

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Favourite author Cathy Cassidy reads a chapter a day from her book "Love from Lexie"

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The official children's channel of award-winning UK based children's author PHILIP ARDAGH, on which he posts videos about BOOKS & THINGS. Described by his mo...

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RJ Palacio - info on the book, the film, the characters and more. Much more

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Celebrate the Power of Kindness with WONDER - Penguin Random House

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Celebrate the power of kindness with WONDER by R.J. Palacio—the worldwide bestseller that launched the Choose Kind movement.

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Andersen Press, founded in 1976, publishes some of the most well known and best loved names in the world of children's books. These include David McKee, the creator of Elmer the Patchwork Elephant; Tony Ross, Ruth Brown, Michael Foreman, and Max Velthuijs whose Frog series has sold in 25 languages;

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Activities and sing-alongs

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Global Summer Adventure Club | Barefoot Books

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Poems from Joseph Coelho

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David Walliams Marvellous Musical Podcast

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Discover the marvellous world of classical music with David Walliams!

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Now that you've listened to David Walliams' Marvellous Music Podcast, why not put your knowledge to the test with our 10 quizzes? We have quizzes of different levels to suit everyone, from our 'Clever Cloggs' beginners level, through to our more advanced 'Super Brainiacs' level.
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There are so many resources for reading on the World Book Day website - including lots of free audiobooks, things to make and do plus information on dozens of authors. Check it out!

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Welcome to World Book Day’s World of Stories, where you can bring story time to life with audiobooks of your favourite books FOR FREE.

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Julie wrote to WHSS recently to thank Mrs Willshaw for recommending her book. Ask Mrs Willshaw if you would like to read her copy!

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My name is Julie Pike, the author of The Last Spell Breather, Published by OUP Children's Books.

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Download a Free Audiobook from Audible and also AudioBooks.com
Download hundreds of free audio books, mostly classics, to your MP3 player or computer. Below, you'll find great works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, by such authors as Twain, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Orwell, Vonnegut, Nietzsche, Austen, Shakespeare, Asimov, HG Wells & more. Also please see our related collection: The 150 Best Podcasts to Enrich Your Mind.

Aristophanes - Lysistrata (performed by Lucy Lawless) - Free Stream

Asimov, Isaac - "Nightfall" - Free Stream

Asimov, Isaac - Radio Dramas of The Foundation Trilogy & 7 Classic Stories - Free Stream

Asimov, Isaac - "The Last Question" (readings by Leonard Nimoy) - Free YouTube Audio

Atwood, Margaret - "Stone Mattress" - Free Stream

Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice (read by Kate Beckinsale) - Free iTunes

Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice (alternative version) - Spotify

Auster, Paul - Free Stream - "Auggie Wren's Christmas Story"

Auster, Paul - Free MP3 - The Red Notebook (read by the author)

Babel, Isaac - Free MP3 - "The Story of the Dovecote" (read by Nathan Englander) - Free MP3

Babel, Isaac - "You Must Know Everything" - Free MP3

Baldwin, James - "A Letter to My New Nephew" (read by Chris Rock) - YouTube

Baldwin, James - Fifty Famous Stories Retold - Free MP3 Stream/Download

Ballard, JG - "A Place and A Time to Die" (Dramatized version) - Free MP3 Stream

Ballard, JG - "Track 12" and "Venus Smiles" - Free Stream

Ballard, JG - Cocaine Nights - Free Stream

Ballard, JG - "My Dream of Flying to Wake Island" (read by William Boyd) - Free MP3

Ballard, JG - The Drowned World - Free Stream

Ballard, JG - "The Stories of JG Ballard" (dramatized for radio) - Free Stream

Balzac, Honoré de - La Comédie Humaine (French) - Free Downloads

Balzac, Honoré de - Le Père Goriot - Free Stream/Download

Balzac, Honoré de - The Peasant Story of Napoleon - Free MP3

Barrodale, Amie - "William Wei" (read by James Franco) - Free MP3

Barthelme, Donald - "Chablis" (read by Etgar Keret) - Free Stream

Barthelme, Donald - "Concerning the Bodyguard" (read by Salman Rushdie) - Free MP3

Barthelme, Donald - "Game" and "School" (read by T.C. Boyle) - Free MP3

Barthelme, Donald - "I Bought a Little City" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Barthelme, Donald - "The Royal Treatment" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Baum, Frank L. - The Wizard of Oz (read by Tituss Burgess) - Free iTunes

Baum, L. Frank - Rinkitink in Oz (Vol 10) - Free MP3

Baum, Frank L. - The Magic of Oz (Vol 13) - Free MP3

Baum, Frank L. - Glinda of Oz (Vol 14) - Free MP3

Beckett, Samuel - The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 - Free Audio Stream

Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot (Live Reading) - Real Player

Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot (Theatrical performance with Bert Lahr) - Spotify

Borges, Jorge Luis - 'On Exactitude in Science' - Free MP3/Stream

Borges, Jorge Luis - Ibn Hakkan Al-Bokhari, Dead in his Labyrinth (Read by Orhan Pamuk) - Free Stream

Borges, Jorge Luis - Shakespeare's Memory - Free Stream

Borges, Jorge Luis - "The Book of Sand" - Free Stream

Borges, Jorge Luis - The Gospel According to Mark (read by Paul Theroux) - Free Stream

Boyle, T. Coraghessan - "The Shape of a Teardrop‪"‬ (read by Boyle) - Free Stream

Bradbury, Ray - Futuria Fantasia (a sci fi short story collected edited by Ray Bradbury) - Free Stream

Bradbury, Ray - All Summer in a Day - Free Stream/MP3

Bradbury, Ray - The Golden Apples of the Sun - Free Stream/MP3

Bradbury, Ray - The Pedestrian - YouTube

Bradbury, Ray - The Martian Chronicles & The Illustrated Man Read by Leonard Nimoy - YouTube

Bradbury, Ray - The Martian Chronicles (Radio drama with Derek Jacobi & Hayley Atwell) - Spotify

Bradbury, Ray - Radio Dramas of Bradbury Stories - Free Stream

Bradbury, Ray - "The Last Night of the World" - Soundcloud

Brodkey, Harold - "Dumbness is Everything" (read by Michael Cunningham) - Free Stream

Brodkey, Harold - "Spring Fugue" (read by Jeffrey Eugenides) - Free MP3

Brodkey, Harold - "The State of Grace" (read by Richard Ford ) - Free Stream

Bronte, Anne - Agnes Grey - Free iTunes

Brown, Margaret Wise - Good Night Moon (Read by Susan Sarandon) - YouTube

Burnett, Frances Hodgson - The Secret Garden (Read by Karen Gillan) - Free iTunes

Burroughs, William S. - Call Me Burroughs (his first spoken word album) - Spotify

Burroughs, William S. - "Ghosts of Chance" - YouTube

Burroughs, William S. - Junky - MP3s

Burroughs, William S. - Let Me Hang You (posthumous album featuring readings of Naked Lunch to music) - Spotify

Burroughs, William S. - The Best of William Burroughs, Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales, Dead City Radio, Break Through in Grey Room, and Call Me Burroughs - Spotify

Burroughs, William S. - "Thanksgiving Prayer" - YouTube

Burroughs, William S. - The Road to the Western Lands - Spotify

Calvino, Italo - Invisible Cities (excerpts read by Calvino) - Free Stream

Calvino, Italo - "Love Far from Home" (read by Salman Rushdie) - Free Stream

Calvino, Italo - The Night Driver (read by Jeanette Winterson) - Free Stream

Calvino, Italo - "The Daughters of the Moon" (read by Robert Coover) - Free Stream

Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (read by Cory Doctorow) - Multiple formats

Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (read by Sir John Gielgud) - Stream/Spotify

Carroll, Lewis - The Game of Logic - Free iTunes

Carroll, Lewis - Through the Looking Glass (Read by Joan Greenwood, Stanley Holloway) - Spotify

Carver, Raymond - "Cathedral" (read by James Naughton) - YouTube

Carver, Raymond - "Chef's House" (read by David Means) - Free MP3

Carver, Raymond - "Fat" (read by Anne Enright) - Free MP3

Carver, Raymond - "The Students' Wife (read by Richard Ford) - Free MP3

Carver, Raymond - "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" (Read by Carver) - Free MP3

Chabon, Michael - "S. Angel" - Free Stream

Cheever, John - "The Death of Justina" (read by John Cheever) - Free Stream/Download

Cheever, John " The Enormous Radio" (read by Nathan Englander) - Free Stream

Cheever, John - "The Reunion" (read by Richard Ford) - Free MP3

Cheever, John - "The Swimmer" (read by Anne Enright) - Free MP3

Cheever, John - "The Swimmer" (read by Cheever himself) - Free Stream

Chekhov, Anton - Collected Stories - Free MP3 Stream/Download

Chekhov, Anton - "The Beauties" (read by Philip Pullman) - Free MP3

Chekhov, Anton - Collected Stories - Free multiple formats

Chekhov, Anton - "The First Class Passenger," "Harmfulness of Tobacco" and "A Transgression" (Read by Michale Redgrave) - Spotify

Chabon, Michael - "S Angel" (read by author) - Free Stream/Download

Chopin, Kate - Selected Stories - Multiple Formats

Christian Andersen, Hans - Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, including The Emperor's New Clothes, read by Sir Michael Redgrave - Free Spotify

Christian Andersen, Hans - Andersen's Fairy Tales - Free MP3

Clarke, Arthur C. - "A Walk in the Dark" (A dramatized version of the text) - Free MP3 Stream

Clarke, Arthur C. - "Breaking Strain" - YouTube

Clarke, Arthur C. - Childhood's End (Excerpts read by the author) - YouTube

Clarke, Arthur C. - "Hammer of God" - Free MP3

Clarke, Arthur C. - "The Nine Billion Names of God" and "The Star" - Free Stream/Download

Clarke, Arthur C. - "The Star" (Radio Drama) - Free Stream

Conan Doyle, Arthur - Beyond the City - Free MP3

Conan Doyle, Arthur - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Radio Drama, Starring John Gielgud, Orson Welles & Ralph Richardson - Free Stream

Conan Doyle, Arthur - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (64 Hours of Readings) - Spotify

Conan Doyle, Arthur - The Mystery of Cloomber - Free MP3

Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness (Narrated by Hayward Morse) - Spotify

Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness (Orson Welles' radio drama from 1938) - YouTube

Conrad, Joseph - The Secret Sharer - Free MP3

Conrad, Joseph - The Secret Sharer - YouTube

Cooper, James Fenimore - Jack Tier, or the Florida Reef - Free MP3

Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy (Italian) - Free Stream from Princeton University

Dante Alighieri - Divina Commedia (Full reading in Italian) - Free Stream/MP3

Dante Alighieri - The Inferno, Cantos I-VIII (Read by John Ciardi) - Spotify

Danticat, Edwidge - "Seven" (read by Junot Diaz) - Free Stream

Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe (alternate version read by Nigel Graham) - Spotify

DeLillo's, Don - "Baader-Meinhof" (read by Chang-rae Lee) - MP3

DeLillo, Don - "The Itch" - Free Stream

Diaz, Junot - "Alma" (read by Victor Rasuk) - YouTube

Diaz, Junot - "How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)" - Free MP3

Diaz, Junot - "The Cheaters Guide to Love" - YouTube

Dick, Philip K. - "Beyond Lies the Wub" - Free MP3

Dick, Philip K. - "The Defenders" - Free MP3

Dick, Philip K. - "The Eyes Have It" - Free MP3

Dick, Philip K. - "The Gun" - YouTube

Dick, Philip K. - "The Hanging Stranger" - Free MP3

Dick, Philip K - Radio Plays - Stream

Dickens, Charles - 24 Hours of Dickens Stories Featuring Classic Recordings by Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles & More - Free YouTube

Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol (Read by Neil Gaiman) - Free Stream

Dickens, Charles - Christmas Stories - Free MP3s

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Notes from the Underground - Free MP3

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - Free Stream/Download

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Gambler - Free MP3 Zip File - Free Stream

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Grand Inquisitor (dramatic reading) - Free Stream - Free MP3 Zip

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Possessed - Free MP3

Doyle, Roddy - "Bullfighting" (Read by Dave Eggers) - Free MP3

Dr Who Audio Dramas - Spotify

Eliot, T.S. - The Cocktail Party (Performed by Alec Guinness & Cathleen Nesbitt) - Free Spotify

Erdich, Louise - "The Stone" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Faulkner, William - "Shingles for the Lord" - Free Stream

Faulkner, William - Faulkner Reads Faulkner - Free Stream

Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby - Free Stream

Flaubert, Gustave - Three Short Works

Ford, Richard - "Displaced" (Read by Richard Ford)

Forster, E.M. - "The Machine Stops" - Free iTunes

Gaiman, Neil - Coraline (Read in its entirety by Neil Gaiman and friends) - Video

Gaiman, Neil - "A Study in Emerald" - Free iTunes

Gaiman, Neil - "How to Talk to Other Girls at Parties" - Free MP3

Gaiman, Neil - "Orange" (read live) - Free Video

Gaiman, Neil - "Other People" (read by Neil Gaiman) - Free Video

Gaiman, Neil - The Graveyard Book (read by Neil Gaiman) - Free Video

Gaiman, Neil - "Troll Bridge" (read live, starts at 4:00 mark) - Free iTunes

Gaiman, Neil - "The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury" (read by Neil Gaiman) - Free Stream

Gaiman, Neil - "The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains" - Free MP3

Gaitskill, Mary - "The Other Place" (read by Jennifer Egan) - Free MP3

Geng, Veronica - "Love Trouble Is My Business" (read by Jonathan Franzen) - Free MP3

Gogol, Nikolai - "The Nose" - Free MP3

Gogol, Nikolai - The Overcoat and Other Short Stories - Free MP3 Zip File

Gordimer, Nadine - "A Style of Her Own" and "The Bridegroom" (read by the author, 1961) - Free Stream/Download

Gordimer, Nadine - "City Lovers" (read by Tessa Hadley) - Free MP3

Gordimer, Nadine - "Loot" (read by author) - YouTube

Gordimer, Nadine - "The Pet" (read by Joseph O'Neill) - Free Stream

Grahame, Kenneth - The Reluctant Dragon (read by Boris Karloff) - YouTube

Hawthorne, Nathaniel - Rappaccini's Daughter - Free Stream

Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter - Spotify

Hawthorne, Nathaniel - "Wakefield" (Read by Paul Auster) - YouTube

Hayden, Julie - "Day-Old Baby Rats" (read by Lorrie Moore) Free MP3

Heinlein, Robert - Methuselah's Children (abridged) - Free Stream/MP3

Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms (1948 radio drama) - YouTube

Hemingway, Ernest - Ernest Hemingway Reads Ernest Hemingway - Free Stream

Hemingway, Ernest - Homage to Switzerland (read by Julian Barnes) - Free MP3

Hitchcock, Alfred - Alfred Hitchcock Presents Ghost Stories for Young People - Spotify

Hughes, Langston - "Simple on Indian Blood"(read by Ossie Davis) - Free Stream

Hughes, Langston - "A Toast to Harlem" (read by Ossie Davis) - Free Stream

Hughes, Langston - "Last Whipping" (read by Ossie Davis) - Free Stream

Hughes, Langston - "Feet Live Their Own Life" (read by Ossie Davis) - Free Stream

Hugo, Victor - Les Misérables - Radio drama narrated by Orson Welles - Multiple formats

Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Abridged version read by Christopher Lee) - Spotify

Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World (Dramatized version read by Huxley) - Free Stream

Irving, Washington - Rip Van Winkle - Free MP3

James, Henry - "Greville Fane" (read by Cynthia Ozick) - Free Stream/Download

Johnson, Denis - "Emergency" (read by Tobias Wolff) MP3

Joyce, James - "Eveline" (read by Sebastian Barry) - Free MP3

Joyce, James - Finnegans Wake - Free Stream

Joyce, James - "The Dead" - Free MP3 Zip File

Joyce, James - "The Dead" (Read by Cynthia Nixon & Colum McCann) - Free Stream

Joyce, James - "The Dead" (Read by Bart Wolffe) - Spotify

July, Miranda - "Ron Spivey" (read by David Sedaris) - Free MP3

Kafka, Franz - "A Little Fable" (Read by David Foster Wallace) - Free Stream

Kafka, Franz - "A Hunger Artist" (read by Hanif Kureishi) - Free MP3

Kafka, Franz - "Before the Law" - Free MP3

Kafka, Franz - "In the Penal Colony - Free MP3

Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis - Free iTunes - Free MP3 - Free Stream - Spotify

Karloff, Boris - Tales of the Frightened - YouTube

Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, etc - 18 Hours of Beat Readings - Spotify

Kincaid, Jamaica - "Figures in the Distance" (read by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) - Free MP3

Kincaid, Jamaica - "Girl" and "Wingless" (read by Edwidge Danticat) - Free Stream

King, Stephen - "Afterlife" - YouTube

Kipling, Rudyard - Kim - Free iTunes

Kipling, Rudyard - Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - Free MP3

Kipling, Rudyard - "The Elephant's Child" - Free MP3

Kipling, Rudyard - The Jungle Story - Free MP3 Zip File

L'Heureux, John - "Three Short Moments in a Long Life" - Free MP3 Stream

Lahiri, Jhumpa - "Casting Shadows‪"‬ (read by the author) - Free Stream

Lawrence, D.H. - Everlasting Flowers - Free MP3 Zip File

Lawrence, D.H. - A Woman and Her Dead Husband - Free MP3

Le Guin, Ursula - "The End" (Dramatized version) - Free MP3 Stream

Leroux, Gaston - The Phantom of the Opera (abridged) - Spotify

Lethem, Jonathan - "The Afterlife‪"‬ (read by the author) - Free Stream

Lewis, C.S. - The Chronicles of Narnia - Free MP3s

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Silver Chair

The Horse and His Boy

The Magician's Nephew

The Last Battle

Lewis, C.S. - The Screwtape Letters (narrated by John Cleese) - YouTube

Lewis, Sinclair - It Can't Happen Here (reading of an adapted play) - YouTube

London, Jack - The Heathen - Free MP3

London, Jack -To Build a Fire - Free MP3

Lovecraft, H.P - The Call of of Cthulhu & Other Stories - Spotify

Lovecraft, H.P. - The Outsider and The Hound (read by Roddy McDowall) - Free

Lu Xun - A Madman's Diary and Other Stories - Free MP3 Zip File

Mann, Thomas - Death in Venice - Free MP3s/Download

McCabe, Eugene - Annahullian (read by Colm Tóibín) - Free MP3

McCann, Colum - "Transatlantic" (read by author) - Free MP3

McEwan, Ian - "My Purple Scented Novel" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Melville, Herman - Moby-Dick read by Celebrities (Benedict Cumberbatch, John Waters, Stephen Fry, Tilda Swinton & More) - Free Stream/Download

Melville, Herman - Moby-Dick read by Other Celebrities - SoundCloud

Miller, Arthur - Readings from The Crucible and Death of a Salesman - Spotify

Miller Jr, Walter M. - A Canticle for Leibowitz (Dramatized Version) - Free Stream

Miller, William - Rent Party Jazz (read by Viola Davis) - YouTube

Milne, A.A. - Winnie the Pooh (read Disney Book Group) - Free iTunes

Milton, John - Paradise Regained - Free MP3 Zip File

Moore, Lorrie - "Paper Losses" (read by Gary Shteyngart) - Free Stream

Munro, Alice - "Axis" - Free MP3

Murakami, Haruki - "Barn Burning" - Free Stream

Murakami, Haruki - "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning" - Free Stream

Murakami, Haruki - "U.F.O. in Kushiro" - Free Stream

Nabokov, Vladimir - My Russian Education (Read by Orhan Pamuk) - Free MP3

Nabokov, Vladimir - "Pnin" - Free Stream

Nabokov, Vladimir - Signs and Symbols - Free iTunes

Nabokov, Vladimir - Vladimir Nabokov Reads from Lolita & Selected Poems - Spotify

Nin, Anais - "Under a Glass Bell" (Read by the author) - YouTube

NPR - Star Wars Trilogy Radio Drama - YouTube

O'Connor, Flannery - "A Good Man is Hard to Find." (Read by author in 1959) - Stream/Download

O'Connor, Flannery - "Everything That Rises Must Converge" (Read by Estelle Parsons) - YouTube

O'Connor, Flannery - "Revelation" (Read by Studs Terkel) - Stream

O'Connor, Frank - "The Man of the World" (read by Julian Barnes) MP3

Oates, Joyce Carol - "Mastiff" (read by Louise Erdrich) - Free Stream

Oates, Joyce Carol -"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God‪"‬ (read by the author) - Free Stream

Orwell, George - 1984 (Radio Drama from 1949 starting David Niven) - Free Stream

Orwell, George - 1984 (Complete reading by Pacifica Radio) - Soundcloud

Orwell, George - Animal Farm - Spotify version

Oz, Amos - "The King of Norway" (read by Jonathan Safran Foer) - Free Stream

Ozick, Cynthia - "The Shawl" (read by Joyce Carol Oates) - Free Stream

Paley, Grace - "Love" (read by George Saunders) - Free Stream

Plath, Sylvia - Three Women (a radio play) - Free Stream

Poe, Edgar Allan - 5 Hours of Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Vincent Price & Basil Rathbone - Spotify

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Essential Edgar Allan Poe - Spotify

Poe, Edgar Allan - "The Masque of the Red Death" and Annabel Lee (read by William S. Burroughs) - Free YouTube Audio

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Cask of Amontillado - Free MP3/Stream

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Mask of the Red Death (read by William S. Burroughs) - Spotify

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Pit and the Pendulum - Free MP3

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven - Free MP3

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Stan Lee) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by James Earl Jones) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Neil Gaiman) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by John Astin) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (as read by Anne Waldman) - SoundCloud

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Christopher Lee) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Vincent Price) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Christopher Walken) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Tell Tale Heart - Free MP3

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Tell Tale Heart (read by Christopher Lee) - Free YouTube Audio

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Tell Tale Heart (read by Iggy Pop) - Free YouTube Audio

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Tell Tale Heart, Silence, Annabel Lee (read by James Mason) - Free Stream

Porter, Eleanor - Pollyanna - Free MP3 Zip File

Price, Vincent - The Price of Fear (Classic radio show featuring Vincent Price) - Free YouTube

Pritchett, V.S. - The Rescue (Read by Jonathan Lethem) - Free Stream

Prokofiev, Sergei - Peter and the Wolf (Narrated by David Bowie) - Spotify

Proust, Marcel - À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu (Œuvre Intégrale) (in French) - Free Stream

Ratcliffe, Stephen - Continuum - Free MP3 Stream

Rand, Ayn - Anthem - Spotify

Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front - Free Stream

Rushdie, Salman - "The Little King‪"‬ (read by the author) - Free Stream

Rushdie, Salman - "The Old Man in the Piazza‪"‬ (read by the author) - Free Stream

Ruskin, John - The Golden River - Free MP3

Safran Foer, Jonathan - "Love is Blind and Deaf" - Video Animation

Saramago, José - "The Centaur" (Read by Nadine Gordimer) - Free MP3

Sartre, Jean-Paul (Performed by Lucy Lawless and Jaime Murray) - Free Stream

Saunders, George - "Elliott Spencer" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Saunders, George - "Ghoul" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Saunders, George - "Love Letter" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Sedaris, David - "The Mouse and the Snake" from Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary - Free MP3 - Web site

Sedaris, David - "Six to Eight Black Men" from the album 'Live at Carnegie Hall' - YouTube Audio

Sedaris, David - "Solution to Saturday's Puzzle"from When You Are Engulfed in Flames - Free MP3

Sendak, Maurice - Where the Wild Things Are (read by Christopher Walken) - YouTube

Seuss, Dr. - Green Eggs and Ham (read by Neil Gaiman) - YouTube

Seuss, Dr. - How The Grinch Stole Christmas (read by Boris Karloff) - Spotify

Seuss, Dr. - How The Grinch Stole Christmas (read by Keith Morrison) - YouTube

Schwartz, Delmore - "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" (Read by Lou Reed) - Free Stream

Shakespeare, William - A 68 Hour Playlist of Shakespeare's Plays Being Performed by Great Actors: Gielgud, McKellen & More - Free on Spotify

Shakespeare, William - 10 Plays Performed by Orson Welles on the Radio - Free Stream

Shakespeare, William - Hamlet (Starring John Gielgud) - Spotify + Archive.org

Shakespeare, William - Macbeth (with Alec Guinness) - Free Spotify

Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein (narrated by Aaron Mahnke of the Lore podcast) - Free iTunes

Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein - Free iTunes - Free MP3

Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein (Abridged version read by Christophe Lee) - Spotify

Shepard, Sam - "Indianapolis (Highway 74)" read by Dave Eggers - Free Stream

Silverstein, Shel - The Giving Tree (Animated film narrated by the author) - YouTube

Silverstein, Shel - The Giving Tree (Read by Arianna Huffington) - YouTube

Singer, Isaac Bashevis - Disguised (read by Nathan Englander) - Free MP3

Smith, Zadie - "Escape from New York" (read by Zadie Smith) - Free Audio Stream

Stein, Gertrude - If I Told Him: a Completed Portrait of Picasso - Free MP3

Stein, Gertrude - Matisse - Free MP3

Stein, Gertrude - The Fifteenth Of November . . . T. S. Eliot - Free MP3

Stein, Gertrude - The Making of Americans - Free MP3

Stevenson, Robert Louis - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (Read by Christopher Lee) - Spotify

Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island (Read by Hans Conried) - Spotify

Stoker, Bram - Dracula (Read by Christopher Lee) - YouTube

Stone, Tanya Lee - The House That Jane Built: A Story About Jane Addams (Read by Kiernan Shipka) - YouTube

Thomas, Dylan - A Child's Christmas in Wales (read by Thomas) - Youtube

Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina - Free Stream

Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina -

Tolstoy, Leo - Five Short Stories - Spotify

Tolstoy, Leo - Selected Short Stories - Free Stream/MP3

Tolstoy, Leo - What Men Live By and Other Tales - Free iTunes

Tolstoy, Leo - Selected Short Stories - Free Multiple formats

Wells, Tower - "Leopard" (Read by David Sedaris) - Free MP3 Stream

Trollope, Anthony - Barchester Towers - Free MP3 Zip File

Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Multiple versions here

Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Spotify version

Unknown - Epic of Gilgamesh - Free iTunes

Unknown - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Free MP3 Zip File

Updike, John - "Playing with Dynamite" (read by Roger Angell) - Free MP3

Updike, John - "A & P." (read by Allegra Goodman) - Free MP3

Updike, John - "The City" (read by John Updike) - Free Stream

Updike, John - "The Lovely Troubled Daughters of Our Old Crowd" - YouTube

Updike, John - "Twin Beds in Rome" - Free Stream

Verne, Jules - Mysterious Island - Free iTunes

Verne, Jules - The Master of the World - Free MP3

Voltaire - Candide - Free MP3

Vonnegut, Kurt - 2BR02B - Free MP3

Vonnegut, Kurt - "Harrison Bergeron" - Free MP3

Vonnegut, Kurt - The Big Trip Up Yonder - Free MP3

Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse 5, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Welcome to the Monkey House (Abridged readings by Vonnegut) - Spotify

Vonnegut, Kurt - "The Drone" - Free Stream

Vonnegut, Kurt - The Soldier's Story (as a radio opera) - Free Stream

Wallace, David Foster - "Good People" - Free Stream

Wallace, David Foster - "The View from Mrs. Thompson's" (read by DFW) - Free MP3

Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisit, Abridged (read by Sir John Gielgud) - Stream

Welles, Orson - "The Shadow" radio drama (Performed by Welles) - Free MP3

Wells, HG - Magic Shop - Free Stream

Wells, HG - Time Machine (narrated by Kelsey Grammer) - Free iTunes

Wells, HG - Time Machine (dramatized version) - Spotify

Wells, HG - The War of the Worlds (Famous 1938 radio adaptation by Orson Welles) - Stream

Wells, HG - The War of the Worlds (Read by Maxwell Caulfield) - Spotify

Welty, Eudora - "Where Is the Voice Coming From?" (read by Joyce Carol Oates) - MP3

Welty, Eudora - "Why I Live at the P.O." - YouTube

Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence - Free iTunes

Wharton, Edith - The Fulness of Life - Free MP3

Wilde, Oscar - The Happy Prince - Free MP3

Version read by Stephen Fry - YouTube

Version read by Orson Welles and Bing Crosby - YouTube

Wilde, Oscar - The Importance of Being Earnest (Performed by John Gielgud) - Free

Wolff, Tobias - "Bullet in the Brain" (read by T. Coraghessan Boyle) (MP3)

Wolff, Tobias - "The Night in Question" (read by Akhil Sharma) (MP3)

Woolf, Virginia - The Voyage Out - Free Stream

Woolf, Virginia - The Short Stories - Spotify

Wyss, Johann David - The Swiss Family Robinson - Free MP3 Zip File

Poetry

Angelou, Maya - On the Pulse of Morning (read by the author) - YouTube

Angelou, Maya - Phenomenal Woman - YouTube

Angelou, Maya - Still I Rise & On the Pulse of the Morning (read by author) - YouTube

Anonymous - Beowulf - Free iTunes - Free MP3s - Reading by Seamus Heaney

Apollinaire, Guillaume - Le pont Mirabeau (Read by author in 1913) - Free MP3

Apollinaire, Guillaume - Marie (Read by author in 1913) - Free MP3

Apollinaire, Guillaume - Le Voyageur (Read by author in 1913) - Free MP3

Aragon, Louis - Elsa (read by author) - Free Stream

Arnold, Matthew - The Poetry of Matthew Arnold - Free Stream on Spotify

Arnold, Matthew - Dover Beach - Free Stream/Download

Ashbery, John - Everyman - Free MP3

Ashbery, John - "Meditations of a Parrot," "The Painter" and "The Picture of Little J.A. in a Prospect of Flowers" (read by the author)- Free Stream/MP3

Ashbery, John - Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror - YouTube

Auden, W.H. - 1st September, 1939; As I Walked Out One Evening; "Song of the Master and Boatswain," (read by Dylan Thomas) - YouTube

Auden, W.H. - 1st September, 1939 - YouTube

Auden, W.H. - As I Walked Out One Evening (read by Auden) - YouTube

Auden, W.H. - Autumn Song - Free MP3

Auden, W.H. - Bucolics and Horae Cononicae (read by Auden) - Free Stream/Download

Auden, W. H. - In Memory of WB Yeats - YouTube

Auden, W.H. - Metalogue to The Magic Flute (read by Auden - Free Stream/Download

Auden, W.H. - The Sea and The Mirror (read by the author) - Free Stream/Download

Baudelaire, Charles - Les fleurs du mal (in French) - Free Stream

Beckett, Samuel - Tailpiece and 23rd Addenda (read by the author) - YouTube

Beefheart, Captain - Fallin Ditch, Skeleton Makes Good & More (read by the author) - YouTube

Blake, William - A Little Boy Lost - Free MP3

Blake, William - Jerusalem - Free MP3 Zip File

Blake, William - Laughing Song - Free MP3

Blake, William - London - Free MP3

Blake, William - Preface to Milton - Free MP3

Blake, William - Piping Down Valleys Wild - Free MP3

Blake, William - Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, as read by Allen Ginsberg - Free Stream/MP3

Blake, William - The Chimney Sweeper - Free MP3

Blake, William - The School Boy - Free MP3

Blake, William - Visions of the Daughters of Albion - Free MP3

Borges, Jorge Luis - Art of Poetry/Arte Poétic - Free MP3

Borges, Jorge Luis - Borges Reads 30 of His Poems in Spanish - Spotify

Borges, Jorge Luis - Plainness - Free Stream

Bradbury, Ray - If Only We Had Taller Been (read by the author) - YouTube

Bronte, Emily - Anticipation - Free MP3

Bronte, Emily - Encouragement - Free MP3

Bronte, Emily - Poems - Free MP3

Bukowski, Charles - 4 Hours of Bukowski Readings - Spotify

Bukowski, Charles - At Terror Street and Agony Way - Free Audio

Bukowski, Charles - Beer - Animated Video

Bukowski, Charles - Bluebird - YouTube Audio

Bukowski, Charles - Girl on the Escalator - Vimeo

Bukowski, Charles - Hostage - Spotify

Bukowski, Charles - Master Collection - Spotify

Bukowski, Charles - Something For The Touts, The Nuns, The Grocery Clerks, And You - YouTube Audio

Bukowski, Charles - The Laughing Heart (read by Tom Waits) - YouTube Audio

Bukowski, Charles - The Crunch and Roll The Dice (read by Bono) - YouTube Audio

Bukowski, Charles - The Secret to My Endurance (read by Bukowski) - YouTube Audio

Bukowski, Charles - Bluebird and Torched Out (read by Harry Dean Stanton) - YouTube Video

Burton, Tim - The Nightmare Before Christmas (read by Christopher Lee) - YouTube Video

Byron - Childe Harold: Canto III - Free MP3

Byron - Darkness - Free MP3

Byron - Newton - Free MP3

Byron - She Walks in Beauty - Free MP3

Cage, John - Overpopulation and Art - Free Stream

Carroll, Jim - Praying Mantis - Spotify

Carroll, Lewis - Jabberwocky (read by Neil Gaiman) - YouTube

Carroll, Lewis - Youtube Animated Video

Carroll, Lewis - The Poetry of Lewis Carroll - Spotify

Carver, Raymond - Late Fragment - Free Stream

Cavafy, C.P. - Ithaca (read by Sean Connery) - YouTube

Ciardi, John - As If: Poems New and Selected by John Ciardi (read by the author) - Spotify

Cocteau, Jean - Requiem (read by the author) - Free Stream

Cohen, Leonard - "For E.J.P" and "You Have the Lovers" (read by Cohen) - Free Stream/Download

Coleridge, Samuel - Kubla Khan - Free MP3

Coleridge, Samuel - Kubla Khan (read by Benedict Cumberbatch) - YouTube

Coleridge, Samuel - Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Free MP3

Coleridge, Samuel - The Dungeon - Free MP3

Coleridge, Samuel - Poems (Read by Ralph Richardson) - Free Spotify

Collins, Billy - The Best Cigarette (Poetry collection read by the author) - Free Spotify

Collins, Billy - Soap - Spotify

Crane, Hart - "The Broken Tower" and "The Hurricane" (read by Tennessee Williams) - Vimeo

Crowley, Aleister - Poems by Aleister Crowley (read by Aleister Crowley) - Spotify

Cummings, EE - Somewhere I Have Never Travelled - (read by author) - YouTube

Cummings, EE - Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town - (read by author) - YouTube

Dante - Inferno (read by John Ciardi) - Spotify

De Troyes, Chretien - Lancelot, or The Knight of the Cart- Stream

Dickinson, Emily - An 8 Hour Reading of Emily Dickinson Poetry- YouTube

Dickinson, Emily - The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Series 2 - Free MP3

Dickinson, Emily - Poems & Letters - Spotify

Dickinson, Emily - Because I Could Not Stop for Death - Free MP3

Dickinson, Emily - Hope Is the Thing With Feathers - Free MP3

Dickinson, Emily - 'I Started Early-Took My Dog' - YouTube

Dickinson, Emily - There's a certain Slant of light" (read by Susan Howe) - YouTube

Donne, John - Death, Be Not Proud - Free Stream/MP3

Donne, John - The Good-morrow - Free Stream/MP3

Donne, John - The Sunne Rising - Free MP3

Ehrmann, Max - Desiderata (Read by Leonard Nimoy) - YouTube

Eliot, T.S. - Four Quartets (Read by T.S. Eliot) - YouTube

Eliot, T.S. - Four Quartets (Read by Alec Guinness) - YouTube

Eliot, T.S. - Journey of the Magi(Read by T.S. Eliot) - YouTube

Eliot, T.S. - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (Read by T.S. Eliot) - Spotify playlist

Eliot, T.S. - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Eliot, T.S. - The Waste Land - Free MP3

Listen to reading by TS Eliot - YouTube

Hear reading by Jeremy Irons and Eileen Atkins - Stream

Eliot, T.S. - T.S. Eliot Reading Poems and Choruses - Spotify

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - A Coney Island of the Mind - Spotify

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - Baseball Canto - Free MP3/Stream

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - Evil - Free MP3/Stream

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - 'The First and the Last of Everything' (read by author) - Free Stream

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - "Underwear" (read by author) - YouTube

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - Wilfred Funk (read by author) - Free MP3/Stream

Frost, Robert - A Line Storm Song - Free MP3

Frost, Robert - My Butterfly - Free MP3

Frost, Robert - October - Free MP3

Frost, Robert - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (read by author) - YouTube

Frost, Robert - The Gift Outright (read by author) - YouTube

Frost, Robert - "The Road Not Taken," "The Pasture," "Mowing," "Birches," "After Apple-Picking," and "The Tuft of Flowers" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Frost, Robert - Robert Frost Reads His Poetry - Free Spotify

Gaiman, Neil - The Mushroom Hunters (read by Amanda Palmer) - Soundcloud

Ginsberg, Allen - A Supermarket in California (read by Ginsberg) - Free MP3

Ginsberg, Allen - America (read by Ginsberg) - Free Stream

Ginsberg, Allen - First Blues: Rags, Ballads and Harmonium Songs - Spotify

Ginsberg, Allen - Howl, A Strange New Cottage in Berkeley, and Supermarket in California (read by Ginsberg) - Free MP3/Stream

Ginsberg, Allen - Howl (read by Ginsberg, 1959) - YouTube

Ginsberg, Allen - Howl (first recorded reading of Howl by Ginsberg, 1956) - Free Stream

Ginsberg, Allen - Howl (read by James Franco) - YouTube

Ginsberg, Allen - Jahweh and Allah Battle - Free Stream

Ginsberg, Allen - Kaddish and other works (read by Ginsberg) - Free Stream

Ginsberg , Allen - Mind Breaths (read by Ginsberg) - Free Stream/Download

Ginsberg, Allen - Sunflower Sutra (read by Ginsberg) - Free MP3

Ginsberg, Allen - The Last Word on First Blues - Spotify

Ginsberg, Allen - The Lion for Real (read by Ginsberg) - Free on Spotify

Ginsberg, Allen - "The Shrouded Stranger Of The Night," "Sweet Levinsky," and "Stanzas: Written at Night in Radio City." - Free Stream/Download

Ginsberg, Allen - "What would you do if you lost it?" (read by Ginsberg) - Free Stream/Download

Ginsberg, Allen - Witchita Vortex Sutra - Spotify

Giorno, John - The Death of William Burroughs - Free Stream

Hardy, Thomas - Poems (read by Richard Burton) - Spotify

Hemingway, Ernest - Second Poem to Mary (read by Hemingway) - Free YouTube

Henley, Ernest - Invictus - Free YouTube

Hitchcock, Robyn - "If Death is Not the End" (Read by Alan Rickman) - Free Stream

Hughes, Langston - Langston Hughes Reads Langston Hughes - Spotify

Hughes, Langston - The Dream Keeper and Other Poems of Langston Hughes (read by Hughes) - Spotify

Hughes, Langston - The Glory of Negro History - Spotify

The Negro Speaks of Rivers (ready by Hughes) - YouTube

Hughes, Langston - The Voice of Langston Hughes - Spotify

Hughes, Ted - Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes & Peter Porter Read Their Poetry - Spotify

Keats, John - To Autumn - Free MP3

Keats, John - Ode on a Grecian Urn - Free MP3

Keats, John - Ode to a Nightingale (as recited loosely by F. Scott Fitzgerald) - YouTube

Keats, John - Ode to a Nightingale (as read by Benedict Cumberbatch) - YouTube

Keats, John - On First Looking into Chapman's Homer - Free MP3

Keats, John - When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be - Free MP3

Kerouac, Jack - 4 Albums with Kerouac Reciting Poetry & Verse - Spotify

Kipling, Rudyard - If (read by Dennis Hopper) - YouTube

Kipling, Rudyard - If (read by Michael Caine) - YouTube

Kipling, Rudyard - My Boy Jack (read by Ralph Fiennes) - YouTube

Kipling, Rudyard - The Gods of the Copybook Headings - Free MP3

Kipling, Rudyard - The Way Through the Woods - Free MP3

Levertov, Denise - City Psalm, Open Secret, Love Song, The Ache of Marriage, To the Muse, The Certainty (read by the author) - SoundCloud

Lorca, Federico Garcia (Read by Patti Smith) - YouTube

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth - Selected Works - Free MP3

McCrae, John - "In Flanders Fields" (read by Leonard Cohen) - YouTube

Melville, Herman - Ball's Bluff - Free Stream

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Nabokov, Vladimir - The University Town (read by Ralph Fiennes) - Free Stream

Nash, Ogden - Christmas with Ogden Nash - Spotify

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Neruda, Pablo - First Poetry Reading in the US (1966) - Free Stream

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Neruda, Pablo - Pablo Neruda Lee a Pablo Neruda - Spotify

O'Hara, Frank - Animals (read by Zadie Smith) - Free Stream

Oliver, Mary - "The Summer Day," "Little Dog's Rhapsody in the Night," "Many Miles" and "Night and the River" (read by the author) - YouTube

Plath, Sylvia - Sylvia Plath reading her poetry (23 poems read by the author) - YouTube

Plath, Sylvia - Ariel (read by author) - YouTube Stream

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Plath, Sylvia - Daddy (read by author) - YouTube

Plath, Sylvia - Fever 103 (read by the author) - YouTube

Plath, Sylvia - Lady Lazarus (read by author) - YouTube

Plath, Sylvia - Morning Song (read by Meryl Streep) - SoundCould

Plath, Sylvia - Spinster - Soundcloud

Plath, Sylvia - The Applicant (read by the author) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - Annabel Lee - Free MP3

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Christopher Walken) - YouTube

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Pope, Alexander - Nature and Art - Free Stream

Pope, Alexander - The Quiet Life - Free Stream

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Pound, Ezra - Sestina: Altaforte (read by author) - YouTube

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Rexroth, Kenneth - "One Hundred Poems from the Chinese" and "In Defense of the Earth" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Rich, Adrienne - Mourning Poem, Spring Thunder, White Night and other poems (read by author) - Free Stream/Download

Rich, Adrienne - "Planetarium" (read by astrophysicist Janna Levin) - Soundcloud

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Rumi - Poems read by Tilda Swinton, Madonna, Robert Bly & Coleman Barks - YouTube/Soundcloud

Sandburg, Carl - A Lincoln Album: Readings by Carl Sandburg - Spotify

Sandburg, Carl - Chicago - Free Stream

Sandburg, Carl - The People Yes - Spotify

Sassoon, Siegfried - Aftermath (Read by Jeremy Irons) - YouTube

Sexton, Anne - Waiting to Die (read by author) - YouTube

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Schiller, Friedrich - Poetry of Friedrich von Schiller: Read in German by Kinski - Spotify

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Smith, Patti - Reading at Columbia University of Poetry That Would Become Horses (1975) - YouTube

Smith, Patti - Reading of 12 Poems From "Seventh Heaven" (1972) - YouTube

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Burke, Edmund - A Philosophical Enquiry (Full zip file)

Burke, Edmund - Reflections on the Revolution in France (Full zip file)

Burroughs, William S. - Breakthrough in Grey Room (Spotify)

Burroughs, William S. - Burroughs at 100 (A radio documentary narrated by Iggy Pop)

Camus, Albert - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1957 (YouTube)

Camus, Albert - The Human Crisis (Read by Actor Viggo Mortensen) - YouTube

Camus, Albert - Letter to His Elementary School Teacher (Read by Actor Benedict Cumberbatch) - YouTube

Campbell, Joseph - 48 Hours of Joseph Campbell Lectures - Spotify

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Carroll, Lewis - The Game of Logic (Free MP3)

Channing, Edward - A Short History of the United States (full zip file)

Chomsky, Noam - 24 Hours of Lectures and Talks on Democracy (Spotify)

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Darwin, Charles - On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (MP3 download full zip file)

Descartes, Rene - Discourse on Method (MP3 download).

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Dickens, Charles - A Child's History of England (full zip file)

Doctorow, Cory - Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future (Streamed)

Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (MP3 download)

Douglass, Frederick - A Speech to the People of Rochester, New York on the Hypocrisy of Slavery (MP3 download)

Douglass, Frederick - The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro (read by James Earl Jones) - YouTube

Dubois, W.E.B. - The Soul of Black Folks (iTunes)

Duchamp, Marcel - The Creative Act (YouTube)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo - History (MP3 download)

Einhard, The Life of Charlemagne (full zip file)

Einstein, Albert - Relativity (MP3 download full zip file)

Einstein, Albert - Albert Einstein in His Own Voice (Spotify)

Faulkner, William - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1954 (Soundcloud)

Foster Wallace, David - "Consider the Lobster" (Stream)

Foster Wallace, David - This is Water, 2005 Kenyon Commencement Speech (YouTube)

Foster Wallace, David - The View from Mrs Thompson's (read by the author)

Fuller, Buckminster - Buckminster Fuller Speaks His Mind - Spotify

Fuller, Buckminster - Everything I Know (Lecture Series) - Free Stream

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - "The Solitude of Latin America" (Nobel Prize Speech) (YouTube/Web Site)

Gibbon, Edward - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 1. (Librivox collection of MP3's)

Gibbon, Edward - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 2. (Librivox collection of MP3's)

Gibbon, Edward - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 3. (Librivox collection of MP3's)

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Goethe - Theory of Colors (MP3s)

Grant, Ulysses S. - The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (Various formats)

Harding, Samuel - The Story of the Middle Ages (Free Stream)

Henry, Patrick - Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (MP3 download)

Henry, Patrick - Speech Addressing the Virginia House of Burgesses; Richmond, Virginia; March 23, 1775 (MP3 download)

Hitchcock, Alfred - Alfred Hitchcock Interviews - Spotify

Hogben, Julie Margaret - "When the Doorman is Your Main Man" (Read by Cecily Strong) - Stream Online

Holmes, Oliver Wendell - The Fountain of Youth (mp3 download)

Huxley, Aldous - Speaking Personally - (Spotify)

Huxley, Aldous - The Visionary Experience - (MP3 stream)

James, William - The Moral Equivalent of War (mp3 download)

Jefferson, Thomas - The Declaration of Independence (mp3 download)

Jobs, Steve - Stanford Graduations Speech, 2005 (YouTube)

Kandinsky, Wassily - Concerning the Spiritual in Art (mp3 download)

Kaufmann, Walter - Lectures on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Sartre (1960)

Lessig, Lawrence - Free Culture

Lincoln, Abraham - Gettysburg Address (mp3 download)
Also see version read by Johnny Cash (YouTube)

Macauley, Thomas - History of England (Librivox)

Machiavelli, The Prince (mp3 download)

Marx, Karl - The Communist Manifesto (full zip download)

McCleod, Ken - Wake Up to Your Life: Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention (Spotify)

McLuhan, Marshall - The Medium is The Massage (Spotify)

Mill, John Stuart - Utilitarianism (mp3 download full zip file)

Morrison, Toni - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1993 (YouTube)

Nietzsche, Friedrich - Ecce Homo (full zip file)

Nietzsche, Friedrich - Beyond Good and Evil (mp3 download)

Nietzsche, Friedrich - Thus Spoke Zarathustra (full mp3 download)

Nietzsche, Friedrich - Twilight of the Idols (full zip)

Nin, Anais - The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol 1: A 60 minute reading by the author (YouTube)

Paine, Thomas - Common Sense (mp3 download)

Plato - The Apology of Socrates (stream/download)

Roosevelt, Theodore - Spanish-American War: The Rough Riders in Tampa (mp3 download)

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind (full zip file)

Russell, Bertrand - ABC of Relativity: Understanding Einstein (read by Derek Jacobi)

Russell, Bertrand - Why I Am Not a Christian (read by Terrence Hardiman)

Sedaris, David - Santaland Diaries (read by David Sedaris)

The Senate Intelligence Committee - The Senate Intelligence Committee Summary Report on Torture (Read by Annette Bening, Jon Hamm, Matthew Rhys and Maura Tierney)

Steinbeck, John - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1962 (YouTube)

Strathern, Paul - Nietzsche in 90 Minutes (YouTube Stream)

Sun-tzu - The Art of War (mp3 download)

Thoreau, Henry David - Walden (mp3 download)

Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War (mp3 download)

Various - The Federalist Papers Rss Feed

Various - The US Constitution Stream

Voltaire - Candide (mp3 download)

Vonnegut, Kurt - Anti-Censorship Letter Sent to School, read by Benedict Cumberbatch (YouTube)

Wiesel, Elie - Night (a marathon community reading with Dr. Ruth, Itzhak Perlman & more)

Wilde, Oscar - De Profundis (read by Patti Smith)

Wittgenstein, Ludwig - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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Since schools officially closed to the majority of children on Monday 23rd March publishers have started releasing teaching resources for parents to use when they are homeschooling.

There have been plenty of free learning resources and activities popping up, perhaps most famously Joe Wicks's daily PE lessons on Instagram. Publishers, literacy charities and literature festivals have joined the trend by providing activity packs and work sheets which are based around books and characters.

Scallywag Press is one of the indie publishers that has put together teaching resources focused around its titles. Publisher Sarah Pakenham said: "At Scallywag we've always wanted to provide resources to help readers develop discussion, and have fun at the same time. The current need for such resources has made us accelerate this process, and our authors have produced all sorts of entertaining and thought provoking pieces from simple activities to lesson plans overseen by educators. We'd like as many people as possible to download these for free, get more out of the books, and get creative!"

Pearson c.e.o said: "It's more important than ever that learning continues, even if it can't happen in person. Learners, teachers and families are at the heart of everything Pearson does. If we band together, we can all do our part to keep learning going and ease the burden of this unprecedented time."
Free learning resources:
Andersen Press
Andersen Press has release a free ebook, created by Sally Nicholls and illustrator Viveane Schwarz.Staying Home is available to everyone to download. The book follows a family of energetic racoons through a day in lockdown.

Authorfy
Education platform Authorfy which provides author videos and masterclasses, is hosting free creative writing challenges with bestselling children's authors to support home learning. The challenges aim to inspire children, introduce them to new books and demonstrate new storytelling techniques. The challenges are only 10 minutes each, with a new challenge everyday for three months from authors such as Cressida Cowell (the current Children's Laureate), David Baddiel, Piers Torday, Abi Elphinstone and Alex T. Smith.

HarperCollins authors and illlustrators are also getting involved with their own initiatives. David Walliams is releasing a free audio story every day, as well as a wide selection of quizzes and activities on his website. Rob Biddulph is sharing # DrawWithRob videos twice a week on social media to encourage children to draw and keep themselves entertained. Finally, Oliver Jeffers is producing a #StayAtHomeStorytime where he will read one of his books every Monday, Wednesday and Friday and talk about how they were made. They will be read at 6pm on his Instagram and then uploaded to his website.

Hay also has the initiative Hay Levels, which is a series of short films on Youtube for A-Level and GCSE students. Videos include talks by David Crystal on Language Acquisition, Marcus du Sautoy on Algebra, Shahidha Bari on the Romantic Ballads and hundreds more three minute lessons on subjects from rocket science to Antarctic melt and Romeo & Juliet.

Oxford University Press
OUP has made lots of resources free in a bid to support teachers, parents and children during this time. Including Oxford Owl for School and Home, which has phonics resources, activity packs, an ebook library and parent information booklets. MyMaths is free and is a platform for interactive maths learning. Bond Online, which has resources to help prepare for 11+ exams. OUP is also hosting a series of author events for children, including story time, which will be available on Facebook at 11am on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. For existing users, OUP has extended Kerboodle subscriptions until September.

QuortoKids
QuortoKids has been sharing themed reading lists to help parents and children cope with the challenge of learning at home. Reading lists include: Learn At Home, Kids Wellbeing, Activity Books, Search & Find, Toddlers, Discover the World, Sticker Books, Fiction, Little People, Big Dreams.

ReadingZone
ReadingZone is deisgned to help parents find the right books for their children. The site has extracts from children's and teenager's books. They have also recently launched a book club on Youtube for everyone to access when they are at home!

Scholastic
Scholastic has launched a new home learning page, with lots of activities and resources. Scholastic has also been hosting Julia Donaldson's weekly broadcasts, Julia Donaldson and Friends, and has launched Chapter One. Chapter One has readings from authors of their own books and attached resources such as discussion guides.

Throughout April, the audiobook and ebook of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone will be free to download. Audible are providing the audiobook as part of its Audible Stories collection, and OverDrive will provide the ebook as part of its online library.

Read the full story and details here.

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Since schools officially closed to the majority of children on Monday 23rd March publishers have started releasing teaching resources for parents to use when they are homeschooling.

There have been plenty of free learning resources and activities popping up, perhaps most famously Joe Wicks's daily PE lessons on Instagram. Publishers, literacy charities and literature festivals have joined the trend by providing activity packs and work sheets which are based around books and characters.

Scallywag Press is one of the indie publishers that has put together teaching resources focused around its titles. Publisher Sarah Pakenham said: "At Scallywag we've always wanted to provide resources to help readers develop discussion, and have fun at the same time. The current need for such resources has made us accelerate this process, and our authors have produced all sorts of entertaining and thought provoking pieces from simple activities to lesson plans overseen by educators. We'd like as many people as possible to download these for free, get more out of the books, and get creative!"

Pearson c.e.o said: "It's more important than ever that learning continues, even if it can't happen in person. Learners, teachers and families are at the heart of everything Pearson does. If we band together, we can all do our part to keep learning going and ease the burden of this unprecedented time."
Free learning resources:
Andersen Press
Andersen Press has release a free ebook, created by Sally Nicholls and illustrator Viveane Schwarz.Staying Home is available to everyone to download. The book follows a family of energetic racoons through a day in lockdown.

Authorfy
Education platform Authorfy which provides author videos and masterclasses, is hosting free creative writing challenges with bestselling children's authors to support home learning. The challenges aim to inspire children, introduce them to new books and demonstrate new storytelling techniques. The challenges are only 10 minutes each, with a new challenge everyday for three months from authors such as Cressida Cowell (the current Children's Laureate), David Baddiel, Piers Torday, Abi Elphinstone and Alex T. Smith.

HarperCollins authors and illlustrators are also getting involved with their own initiatives. David Walliams is releasing a free audio story every day, as well as a wide selection of quizzes and activities on his website. Rob Biddulph is sharing # DrawWithRob videos twice a week on social media to encourage children to draw and keep themselves entertained. Finally, Oliver Jeffers is producing a #StayAtHomeStorytime where he will read one of his books every Monday, Wednesday and Friday and talk about how they were made. They will be read at 6pm on his Instagram and then uploaded to his website.

Hay also has the initiative Hay Levels, which is a series of short films on Youtube for A-Level and GCSE students. Videos include talks by David Crystal on Language Acquisition, Marcus du Sautoy on Algebra, Shahidha Bari on the Romantic Ballads and hundreds more three minute lessons on subjects from rocket science to Antarctic melt and Romeo & Juliet.

Oxford University Press
OUP has made lots of resources free in a bid to support teachers, parents and children during this time. Including Oxford Owl for School and Home, which has phonics resources, activity packs, an ebook library and parent information booklets. MyMaths is free and is a platform for interactive maths learning. Bond Online, which has resources to help prepare for 11+ exams. OUP is also hosting a series of author events for children, including story time, which will be available on Facebook at 11am on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. For existing users, OUP has extended Kerboodle subscriptions until September.

QuortoKids
QuortoKids has been sharing themed reading lists to help parents and children cope with the challenge of learning at home. Reading lists include: Learn At Home, Kids Wellbeing, Activity Books, Search & Find, Toddlers, Discover the World, Sticker Books, Fiction, Little People, Big Dreams.

ReadingZone
ReadingZone is deisgned to help parents find the right books for their children. The site has extracts from children's and teenager's books. They have also recently launched a book club on Youtube for everyone to access when they are at home!

Scholastic
Scholastic has launched a new home learning page, with lots of activities and resources. Scholastic has also been hosting Julia Donaldson's weekly broadcasts, Julia Donaldson and Friends, and has launched Chapter One. Chapter One has readings from authors of their own books and attached resources such as discussion guides.

Throughout April, the audiobook and ebook of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone will be free to download. Audible are providing the audiobook as part of its Audible Stories collection, and OverDrive will provide the ebook as part of its online library.

Read the full story and details here.

J K Rowling has also granted a temporary Open Licence to enable teachers to record and post videos of themselves reading Harry Potter books aloud to their classes and school networks.

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The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2023 winners have now been announced!

More than 6,600 poets aged 11-17 submitted over 15,800 poems into this year's competition. Young people from 119 countries entered the competition from as far afield as Romania, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, and 94 percent of postcodes in the UK.

This year's poet-judges Jane Yeh and Jonathan Edwards had a difficult job choosing the top 100 winners but were inspired by what they read. Jane reflected on her experience: 'In judging this award, I was astonished - and humbled - to read so many poems brimming over with inventiveness, ambition, and sheer quality. The standard of numerous entrants' work was equal to, or indeed higher than, that of the adult writers in other competitions I've judged over the years, displaying remarkable maturity and talent. I was deeply impressed by the artfulness and linguistic sophistication to be found in many of these poems, as well as the engaging, ardent lyricism of their unique voices. It was actually a bit heart-breaking not to be able to reward more of these wonderful young poets, who I hope won't be discouraged if they didn't win this time round. For me, it was a privilege and a pleasure to read these entries, which make me feel excited and energised about the future of poetry. I look forward to reading many of these writers' work in years to come.'

Jonathan shared his thoughts: 'If I try to choose one word to describe the experience of reading this year's entries for the award, the word is excitement. The poems show such joy and invention in language that it is an absolute pleasure to spend time with them. Sometimes they play language like a big bass drum, setting a marching band strutting through the reader's head. Sometimes the poems walk on their tiptoes across a high wire in a sparkling costume, and we all hold our breath. Sometimes they step out on stage, wave a magic wand and reach into a hat, winking at the camera. Always the poems coin images and metaphors so inventive that they render as daft any judge's attempt to describe them. The poems are suffused with love, whether this be familial or romantic or for our natural world, and they look in an open-eyed way at all sorts of difficult experiences, from bigotry to loss. In every situation, they offer their beautiful and uplifting singing. The achievement of the poems is enough to drive faith not just in the future but in the present of the art. Like all great poems, these entries make us better people and they make us less alone, and I think any doctor might offer half an hour with these poems for anyone who's jaded or tired or fed up. What a wonderful advert these entries are for the importance of poetry, and - more - how much faith they give us in people, our capacity for empathy and tenderness and how, with nothing more than words, we can make the world go "Wow!"'

Huge congratulations to the top 100 winning poets, who were announced at Shakespeare's Globe on 5 October 2023 in a ceremony where the top 15 winning poets read their poems, and all the poets commended in the competition were celebrated.

The top 15 winners of the 2023 Award are:
Tyra Alamu, Ellen Bray Koss, Cameron Calonzo, Heather Chapman, Freya Gillard, Rishi Janakiraman, Charlie Jolley, Sidney Lawson, Lauren Lisk, William G. Marshall, Frank Qi, Dawn Sands, Issi Sharp, Bea Unwin and Eva Woolven
The 85 commended poets are:

Mathias X. Adler, Alicia Aitken, Evie Alam, Lux Alexander, Nabiha Ali, Zaara Arif, Eleni Barrett, Axelle Benoît, Maithreyi Bharathi, Grace Bowen, Saturn Browne, Elise Buckingham Lazell, Sophia Camiña, Juliet Capgras, Lilly Cheeseman, Fae Chui, Lewis Corry, L. Costa, Dingzhong Ding, Mari Farrand, Elena Ferrari, Camille Gabbert, Bohan Gao, Gabi Goncalves, Margot Liv Gothard, Noah Gower-Jones, Merila Gramy, Sofia Eun-Young Guerra, Sophie Hardaker, Ben Heiss, Maille Hennessy, Emma Catherine Hoff, Paromita Islam, Riva Jain, Sarah Kane, Neha Katariya, Emma Kurr, Arthur Lawson, Michael Liu, Noah Ma, Iona Mandal, Hannah Mansfield, Frankie Martins, C. McIntyre, Ramona McNish, Fedora Mensah, Amber Alison Miller, Lydia Mitchell, Eesha Mohan-Clarke, Mukhtar O. Mukhlis, Frank Njoku, Noemi Nobile, Maabena Nti, Sophia Papasouliotis, Megan Park, Charlie Pennell Isabelle Pollard, Anna Ponticos, Jack Puddy, Maaria Rajput, Esther Richards, Zach Rolfe, Madeline Schaeffer, Nerys Schmetterling, Margot Sidwell-Woods, Amelie Sillitoe, Cassia Stuttard, Richard Su, Mariia Sukhomlinova, Hannah Sutherland, Georgia-mae Tan, Malin Janna Vega, Ananditha Venkatramanan, Amy Walpole, Helen Wang, Robyn Ward, Chloe Whitehead, Elise Withey, Keiana Wolfe, Jesse Aviv Wolfsthal, Lara Wong, Leyton Lai Ching Wong, Jilin Yan, Ange Yeung and Viktorija Zak

You can read the top 15 poems in the sidebar on this page now. The 85 commended poems will be published in an online anthology in spring 2024, when a print and online anthology of the top 15 poems will also be produced. In the meantime, you can find anthologies of previous year's winners here.

Winners of the award receive a fantastic range of prizes to help develop their writing. The top 15 poets are invited to attend a residential writing course at The Hurst, the Arvon centre in Shropshire; and all 100 winners receive a year's youth membership of The Poetry Society and a bag full of books donated by generous publishers. The Poetry Society continues to support winners throughout their careers providing publication, performance and development opportunities, and access to a paid internship programme.

If you're a young poet, sign up to our free Young Poets Network e-newsletter to hear about all The Poetry Society's opportunities for young poets to submit their work, perform their poems and further their writing skills. Explore Young Poets Network for regular writing challenges, articles about poetry, events, workshops and more.

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The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award is the biggest poetry competition for 11-17 year olds in the world. Since it began 25 years ago, the Award has kick-started the career of some of today's most exciting new voices. Past winners include Jay Bernard, Sarah Howe, Helen Mort, Phoebe Power, Caroline Bird, Mukahang Limbu, Richard O'Brien and many more incredible poets.

If you have any queries, email us at [email protected] . If you'd like to stay up-to-date with everything that The Poetry Society offers young writers, follow our social media pages ( Twitter, Instagram and Facebook) for updates. You can also visit Young Poets Network for year-round poetry competitions, events and advice for young writers.

Check out the anthology featuring the 2022 Award winners below, and watch this space for the anthology featuring this year's Foyle Young Poets - coming soon!

About

The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award is the biggest poetry competition for 11-17 year olds in the world. Since it began 25 years ago, the Award has kickstarted the career of some of today's most exciting new voices. Past winners include Jay Bernard, Sarah Howe, Helen Mort, Phoebe Power, Caroline Bird, Mukahang Limbu, Richard O'Brien and many more incredible poets.

Check out winners from previous years on the sidebar to the left. If you'd like a free print copy of the 2022 winners' anthology, or any information about the competition, in an alternative format, please don't hesitate to contact us at [email protected].

If you'd like to stay up-to-date with everything that The Poetry Society offers young writers, follow our social media pages ( Twitter, Instagram and Facebook) for updates. You can also visit Young Poets Network for year-round poetry competitions, events and advice for young writers. Teachers, librarians and youth workers can sign up to our free monthly ebulletin to learn about the teaching resources, CPD opportunities and other work we do for educators.

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