Letters, postcards, notes and telegraphs from the great and the good, the notorious and the downright wicked, shine a spotlight on a range of historical events and movements providing an immediate link to the immediate and much more distant past.
This audiobook includes letters from: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mikhail Gorbachev, Lucien Freud, Barbara Hepworth, Nelson Mandela, Caitlin Thomas, Mary Whitehouse, Gandhi, George Washington among many others.
Subjects covered include suffragette disturbances, obscene publications, relations between international leaders, child emigration including the Kindertransport.
The audiobook features 55 letters, each with a 600-word essay, and a 3000 word introduction.
Letters, postcards, notes and telegraphs from the great and the good, the notorious and the downright wicked, shine a spotlight on a range of historical events and movements providing an immediate link to the immediate and much more distant past.
This audiobook includes letters from: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mikhail Gorbachev, Lucien Freud, Barbara Hepworth, Nelson Mandela, Caitlin Thomas, Mary Whitehouse, Gandhi, George Washington among many others.
Subjects covered include suffragette disturbances, obscene publications, relations between international leaders, child emigration including the Kindertransport.
The audiobook features 55 letters, each with a 600-word essay, and a 3000 word introduction.
A new collection of letters, notes and other documents from people who made history.
Jonathan Keeble is an award-winning actor who combines his audio
work with a busy theatre and TV career, having featured in over 500
radio plays for the BBC and appearing in everything from
Shakespeare to Sherlock Holmes. He has starred in Doctor Who,
played the Angel of Death in Hellboy II and is an award-winning
narrator who has recorded more than 200 audiobooks. Much in demand
for his voice work, Jonathan's broad range also includes voicing
the audio guide for The Sistine Chapel.
Jonathan was the winner of the 2016 Voice Arts Award for Audiobook
Narration - Biography for his work on Paul McCartney: The Life by
Philip Norman. Joan has 30 years of experience as an actress,
enjoying all aspects of work including audiobooks, commercials,
radio drama, TV, theatre and film. Recent theatre work includes a
world tour of Mamma Mia! playing the man-eating Tanya; Lady
Fancyfull, the ditzy schemer in The Provok'd Wife at Greenwich
Theatre; and Ingrid in The Tide at the Soho Theatre. Favourite
roles for BBC Radio Drama include Dorothy Parker in Regret is No
Part of My Plan for Radio 4, Madame Beck in Villette for Radio 4
and the Voice of God in The Piper Alpha Disaster for Radio 3.
[On In Their Own Words 1] 'Fascinating.'
*Sunday Times*
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