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A Book of Scoundrels

Read by Greg Lewin

Charles Whibley

An ironic history of British criminals, mostly pre-Victorian pickpockets, highwaymen and thieves. Here we meet Moll Cutpurse the Queen of th…

Of the Stiff-legged Parson and his Flock

In Micah Clarke

Read by Greg Lewin

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

This book tells the story of Micah Clarke's adventures. As a boy he follows his rather romantic notions of what it means to be a soldier and…

The 1865 Cable and Expedition

In The Story of the Atlantic Cable

Read by Greg Lewin

Sir Charles Bright

The electric telegraph, together with the railway-train and the steamship, constituted the three most conspicuous features of late 19th cent…

Chapter II

In Unto Caesar

Read by Greg Lewin

Baroness Emma Orczy

"The State," he said, speaking at least as haughtily as Dea Flavia herself, "hath agreed to accept the sum of twenty aurei fo…