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 8 June The departure from Canterbury and the watchmaker’s tale of the White Elephant […]
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 20. Stories from Mr Blackwood’s Fabularium 11 May The inventor’s tale of the Devil’s Coachman The navvy’s tale of […]
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 […]
