Great poetry should be read aloud, that's where 'A Voice Like This' comes in; a weekly show where one or two poems are read without analysis or lectures. A little space each week for 5 - 10 minutes of calm and chill. Take a little time out of your day for this aural hug with award winning voice actor Phil Rowe.
New shows are posted every Monday, and keep an eye out for the odd bonus episode, too!
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Some houses seem to hold on to the people who once lived in them.
In this episode of A Voice Like This, we leave the darker hauntings of Halloween behind and consider a gentler kind of ghost: the memories, familiar objects and quiet traces of those who came before us.
Through two poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Thomas Hardy, we explore the way the past remains part of the present, sometimes in the most ordinary things.
Featuring:
Haunted Houses by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
Old Furniture by Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
Read and presented by Phil Rowe.
A Voice Like This. Because good poetry is meant to be spoken.
31 Oct 2026
The Haunted House | A Halloween Bonus Episode
For Halloween, A Voice Like This has one more tale to tell.
In this special bonus episode, we step into the unsettling world of Thomas Hood's The Haunted House, a poem filled with empty rooms, lingering shadows and the uneasy feeling that something remains long after everyone has gone.
There's no need to rush through a house like this. Some things are best discovered slowly.
So find yourself somewhere comfortable, perhaps leave a light on, and join me for a little poetry after dark.
Poem: The Haunted House by Thomas Hood (1799–1845)
Read and produced by Phil Rowe.
A Voice Like This. Because good poetry is meant to be spoken.
26 Oct 2026
When Darkness Comes
A Voice Like This | Season 2, Episode 5
As Halloween approaches and the nights grow longer, A Voice Like This ventures into the shadows for a special collection of haunting poetry.
In this episode, three classic poems explore the darker corners of imagination, from witches and supernatural visitors to the unsettling mysteries of the human mind.
We begin with Robert Herrick's The Hag, a wild, eerie journey through the night. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Witch follows, bringing a chilling encounter to the threshold of an unsuspecting home. Finally, Edgar Allan Poe's The Haunted Palace takes us somewhere more disturbing still, where a once-beautiful mind becomes a place of darkness and despair.
Three poems, three different kinds of haunting, and a reminder that sometimes the most frightening things are those we cannot see.
Poems featured:
The Hag by Robert Herrick
The Witch by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe
Presented and performed by Phil Rowe.
Because good poetry is meant to be spoken.
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