An auction house with an international reputation is struggling to catalogue a medieval book which is written in an impenetrable script. The more they research it, the more they are horrified by what they find.
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Each week I shall post a recording of the main story of the latest programme and leave it online for a fortnight. Since some of the stories have been split over two consecutive weeks, listeners who have missed one of the halves can catch up here. Here is the programme from 13 July Tales of the River – Three Men in a Boat, Wind in […]
Starting on July 13 2026 I shall reading more stories by classic authors in my fourth and, for now at least, final series of Night Time Stories for Radio Odstock July 13 2026 Jerome K. Jerome: Three Men in a Boat Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows Chapter 1 Henry Mayhew’s: The Mudlark July 20 Chekhov: The Darling Katherine Mansfield: Bliss July 27 E. […]
I bonded with the Victorians a long time ago. Until I was six I lived in a house where there was no electricity, so I’ve experienced at first hand the ways in which family life arranges itself round a single source of light and heat. I went to a Victorian school which had gas lamps – one of the classrooms didn’t have any lights at […]
