An Angel at My Table -- Janet Frame -- exp 04 Sep
BBC Radio 4 has a dramatization of the autobiography of New Zealand author Janet Frame. It's in two 60 min episodes. Episode 1 expires in 5 days and Episode 2 in 6 days.
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Janet Frame was New Zealand's best known but least public author. The author of twelve novels, four story collections, one book of poetry and three volumes of autobiography, even at the height of her success Frame shunned publicity, which had the effect of making the media and her readership even more intrusively interested.
Frame's story is extraordinary. As her biographer Michael King said, "her family was an anvil on which disasters fell". But it was the issue of Frame's mental health which generated the most conjecture. To set the record straight about the circumstances of her committal to mental hospitals and being diagnosed with schizophrenia, in the early 80's Janet Frame wrote her autobiography; three volumes entitled 'To The Island (1982), An Angel At My Table and The Envoy From Mirror City (both 1984).
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Dark Fire -- CJ Sansom -- exp 06 Sep
Here's a historical crime drama from BBC Radio 4extra. Two episodes 70-75 minutes each. Episode 1 expires in 7 days and Episode 2 doesn't air until 06 Sep.
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Dark Fire is a historical mystery novel by British author C. J. Sansom. It is Sansom's second novel, released in 2004, and also the second in the Matthew Shardlake Series. Set in the 16th century during the reign of Tudor King Henry VIII, it follows hunchbacked lawyer Shardlake's search to recover the long-lost formula for Greek fire.
The novel was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Ellis Peters Historical Dagger award in 2005.
It is 1540 and the hottest summer of the sixteenth century. Matthew Shardlake, believing himself out of favour with Thomas Cromwell, is busy trying to maintain his legal practice and keep a discreet profile. But his involvement with a murder case, defending a girl accused of brutally murdering her young cousin, brings him once again into contact with the king's chief minister – and a new assignment ...
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