In Their Own Words 2
by The National Archives
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.
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Author Biography
Jonathan 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 reader who has recorded over 100 audiobooks. Much in demand for his voice work, Jonathan's broad range also includes voicing the audio guide for The Sistine Chapel. 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. Audible is a seller and producer of spoken audio entertainment, information, and educational programming on the Internet.
Review
[On In Their Own Words 1] 'Fascinating.' -- Sunday Times
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