Benedict Flynn
1) Beowulf
The popularity of Robin Hood endures for ever. In this bright re-telling for audiobook by Benedict Flynn, complete with sound effects. Robin Hood steals from the rich and gives to the poor, faces and overcomes the Sheriff of Nottingham, is supported by Little John and Alan a’Dale, and meets Maid Marian. But the drama and the danger are ever present, and sadness is not far away.
The Adventures of Odysseus is the story of what happened after the Trojan War when Odysseus, the most cunning of all the Greek heroes, left Troy and made his way back to his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. It was first told by a poet named Homer nearly three thousand years ago and is retold in this new version especially for younger listeners.
Music: Mahler, Schumann, Glazunov, Khachaturian, d'Indy, Bliss, Debussy
6) Robin Hood
'Abandon all hope you who enter here' (Lasciate ogne speranza voi ch'intrate)
Dante’s Hell is one of the most remarkable visions in Western literature. An allegory for his and future ages, it is, at the same time, an account of terrifying realism. Passing under a lintel emblazoned with these frightening words, the poet is led down into the depths by Virgil and shown those doomed to suffer eternal torment for vices exhibited and sins
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