Julian Sands

The School for Scandal

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• Narrated By Stuart Bunce, Jane Carr, John Francis Harries, and others

Beware the gossips! Lady Sneerwell and her hireling, Snake, are certainly up to no good in this timeless send-up of hypocritical manners. Thanks to their scandal-mongering, the comely Lady Teazle must fend off the slanderous barbs that have caught the ear of her elderly husband - as well as every other gossip in London! What follows is a torrent of mistaken identities and sex-crazed scheming in which the upper classes have never looked so low class.

A Study Guide to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 11 mins)
• By Richard Kaye
• Narrated By Julian Sands

The classic story of 19th-century man's attempt to control nature through science has remained provocative to this day - the possibilities of science have developed to make Mary Shelley's terrifying vision seem less fantastic. This study guide includes background information on Mary Shelley's England, a detailed narrative guide to the novel, dramatic readings, and a critical analysis.

The Living Room

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 51 mins)
• By Graham Greene
• Narrated By Julian Sands, Kirsten Potter, Morgan Sheppard, and others

London in the 1950s: a mysterious house, home to a family that has seen better days, will not yield its secrets, and a love affair turns to tragedy. Graham Greene, one of the foremost writers of the 20th century, based this play on his own passionate, doomed affairs and his conflicted view of Catholicism.

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Moisés Kaufman
• Narrated By Matthew Wolf, Douglas Weston, John Vickery, and others

In three short months, Oscar Wilde, the most celebrated playwright and wit of Victorian England, was toppled from the apex of British society into humiliation and ruin. Drawing from trial documents, newspaper accounts, and writings of the key players, Moisés Kaufman ignites an incendiary mix of sex and censorship, with a cast of characters ranging from George Bernard Shaw to Queen Victoria herself.

The Greatest Mysteries of All Time

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Thomas Burke, G.K. Chesterton, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and others
• Narrated By Julian Sands, Juliet Mills, David Warner