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 two main recordings from the programme broadcast on Monday 23 March The Horla part 1 The […]
A new series of Night Time Story begins on Radio Odstock on Monday 23 February at 9pm Mon 2 March Thomas Hardy: The Withered Arm Part 1 Robert Browning: The Pied Piper Saki: The Toys of Peace. Mon 9 March Thomas Hardy: The Withered Arm Part 2 George Crabbe: Peter Grimes Mon 16 March Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper Jane Austen: A Visit to […]
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 […]
