MP3 audiobooks with a british accent, and associated media files to download and keep.

Tuesday 27 December 2011

How to Care for the Insane

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of How to care for the Insane. In 1886 William Granger the superintendent of an insane asylum, having spent years in these establishments he realised that the behaviour and training of the attendents and nurses was rather woeful.

He then wrote and published this book, which is a facinating insight into the mental health care training of the late 1800s.

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Saturday 3 December 2011

The Black Stone

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of Robert E. Howard's, The Black Stone.

This story is one of Howard's stories that can be considered part of the Cthulhu Mythos (H.P Lovecraft's worlds).

A young man reads an ancient tome called "Nameless Cults" and discovers in it references to an artifact called "The Black Stone". Worshipped and abhorred, the stone grabs the man's attention and he delves deeply into its mysterious history, until he finds that it truely exists and so embarks on a trip to visit the stone, where he discovers the dark and horrifying truth.
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Friday 2 December 2011

The Story of the 9th Kings in France

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of "The Story of the 9th Kings in France.

The 9th Kings was a territorial infantry battalion when the Great War (World War I) began. On the 4th of August 1914, a telegram containing one word arrived at their headquarters: "Mobilise!" This book follows the unit from mobilisation in 1914 through to the demobilisation in 1918 after the armistice. Along the way, they take part in all of the big battles, Somme, Arras, Ypres along with a near continuous series of skirmishes and patrols while in the front line.

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