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 are the main recordings from Monday 4 May, together with Part 1 of The Speckled Band from last […]
Starting on May 11 I shall be repeating my first series of ten programmes, which featured stories from my Victorian version of The Canterbury Tales, Mr Blackwood’s Fabularium. In the meatime, I shall be preparing a further series of classic short stories to begin on July 11. T
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 […]
