HEATHCOTE WILLIAMS
Sacred Elephant (Unabridged) Heathcote Williams [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 29/Jan/2007 ] Sacred Elephant is a moving portrayal of the world's largest land-living mammal. The poem explores the life of elephants in their natural habitat and in captivity, and details their relentless destruction at the hands of man. Evocatively read by... |
ALIGHIERI DANTE
Purgatory From The Divine Comedy Read by Heathcote Williams [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/1998 ] Though less well-known than Inferno, Purgatory has inspired many writers including, in our century, Samuel Beckett, and has played a key role in literature. |
ANONYMOUS
The Revelation of St John the Divine Read by Heathcote Williams [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 1/Jan/1999 ] The theme of Revelation is apocalypse: the end of the world and the coming of Christ in judgement. The date of the composition was probably some time in the nineties AD. One of the most controversal and quoted texts of the New Testament, The... |
DANTE
The Divine Comedy 1. Inferno (Unabridged) Heathcote Williams [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD - released 3/Jan/2005 ] '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... |
ALIGHIERI DANTE
The Divine Comedy 2. Purgatory (Unabridged) Heathcote Williams (reader) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD - released 3/Jan/2005 ] Now of that second kingdom I shall sing where human souls are purified of sin and made worthy to ascend to Heaven' Purgatory is the second part of Dante's Divine Comedy ascending the terraces of the Mount of Purgatory inhabited by those doing... |
DANTE
The Divine Comedy 3. Paradise (Unabridged) Heathcote Williams [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD - released 1/Oct/2001 ] Originally released on 3 CDs in abridged form. Now available on 4 CDs unabridged. 'I have been in the Heaven that takes up most of his light, and saw things there that those who descend from that height cannot speak of or forget…' Led by his guide... |
ALIGHIERI DANTE
Dante: The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatory - Paradise (Unabridged) Heathcote Williams (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 13 CD Box Set - released 4/Oct/2004 ] Dante's vision The Divine Comedy has profoundly affected every generation since it first appeared in the early fourteenth century. |
HEATHCOTE WILLIAMS
Whale Nation (Unabridged) Heathcote Williams / Harry Burton [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] Whale Nation is a hymn to the beauty, intelligence and majesty of the largest mammal on earth. A 'green classic' read with natural resonance by its author, it rarely fails to strike a chord in the hearts of those concerned with the abuse of our... |