During his sojourn in England during the 1870s, a young Cavafy found himself enthralled by the aesthetic movement of cosmopolitan London. It was during these years that he encountered the canvases and personalities of Pre-Raphaelite painters, including Burne-Jones and Whistler, as well as works of aesthetic writers who were effecting a revolution in British literary culture and channeling influences from France that would gradually coalesce into an international decadent m...

'Paul’s Letters to The Corinthians 1 & 2': Peter Jeffrey reads the second and third of Paul’s Letters, in which he writes to the Christian community in Corinth, Greece. Specially composed music is included. The readings were part of BBC Radio 4's series of 341 daily episodes of the Bible, broadcast in 1991 and 1992. Abridged by Elizabeth Bradbury. 'The New Testament': These abridged readings of the New Testament are taken from the 1989 Revised English Bible, which was translated directly f...

Before we begin to explore reincarnation, we first need to understand what reincarnation is and where it originates from. In basic essence, reincarnation can be seen as the cycle of incarnation or the embodiment in flesh, of a soul that moves from one life to the next. For us to understand the concept of reincarnation we need to understand the law of cyclic change, this is the law that governs all changes in life and can be seen as the never-ending cycle between life and death and death an...

A long-awaited and much-anticipated biography of one of the great modern poets.In 1933, on his seventieth birthday, the poet Constantine Cavafy died in an Alexandrian hospital, surrounded by friends. He left behind a small, curated oeuvre of 154 poems, along with fragments and drafts of incomplete works. Throughout his life, Constantine had kept a tight grip on the distribution of his poetry, but after his death his reputation grew and Constantine became the august...

Karen and Richard met by chance, strangers in an unfamiliar town. They were used to the good life and each saw fit to take advantage of the other.A weekend of pleasure was their aim as they set off over the Pennines that rainy night. But they took a wrong turning down a confusing, deserted lane. Bogged down in a remote area with no phone signals, they could not call for help.Perhaps there was help to be found when they saw a distant light and to this they were drawn as moth...

21 tales where we enter realms of the bizarre, where fear and nightmare overwhelm Reality.It can happen any time - in a busy town, in a country vilage, when close to or far from others. The invisivle portal swings silently aside so the unsuspecting might be drawn through.Hidden Worlds explores the menacing hand of fate that reaches out to to touch when least expected.

Gilgamesh, victorious king of ancient Uruk, is first and boldest of heroes. To curb his lust for Uruk's women the gods create a man of the wilds to challenge him. They embark together upon bizarre adventures but offend the gods who wreak a cruel revenge.Gilgamesh, fearful of his own mortality, hears of a man who, guided by the gods, survived the great flood by building an ark and then was granted eternal life.Gilgamesh's quest to discover this man's secret of everlasting li...

What might the grey, part tumbled Cyclopean stones of Mycenae, a city said once to be rich in gold, tell us of her past if they could speak? The great wall surrounding the city, standing proud to keep out her enemies some three and a half thousand years ago, today proclaims in silence the depredations of men and of time. Through her famed Lion Gate, above which the rampant beasts of carved stone remain standing, once passed worthies, emissaries and traders from the Peloponnese and much of ...

Deep beneath the frigid land of Mars they discovered a presence that did not belong. A form that could not be natural. It was excavated and taken away for examination. When it hatched to reveal the entity within, there came death and the perils that followed. So began the race against time and the fatal desires of one man.

Hera, wife of Almighty Zeus, king of the Gods, determines that Heracles must suffer and die, so he is condemned to face the twelve labours she imposes upon him. The challenges are many. Some take him through great danger to strange and distant lands but Heracles is no ordinary man and will face the worst. His own words, lost to us through centuries of confusion and fantasy, can at last be heard.

Jason, a proven warrior, wants to experience more of life so foolishly accepts a wager from Pelias, king of a rival city, committing him to undertake a perilous voyage to obtain the fabled Golden Fleece from the little known land of Colchis far away to the east. Jason is, unknowingly, a pawn in the hands of Hera, wife of almighty Zeus, who intends to use him as a means to destroy Pelias.Jason's father, Chiron, is owed favours by many heroes throughout the land so these men he calls...

The lure of Planet X drew them into deep space, far beyond the light and warmth of our sun, to discover what secrets lay concealed beneath the perpetual darkness and frozen desolation of this seemingly long abandoned world.And what embers of deceit stirred within the thoughts of one among those who, on entering the forbidden depths, were to face unforeseen dangers?