With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings to life the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded the fateful night of 5 November 1605, she unravels the tangled web of religion and politics that spawned the plot.
'Told with impressive scholarship and panache ...The result is a narrative that is clear, balanced, and builds to its denoument with a sense of pace and tension worthy of a John le Carre novel'— Sunday Telegraph
Winner of the Crime Writers' Gold Dagger Award for Non-Fiction
Robert Powell was Jesus in Franco ZefHreWi's Jesus of Nazareth. Television appearances include Jude the Obscure and The Detectives. Films include Harlequin and Imperative. Theatre credits include Travesties at the RSC, Sherlock Holmes — The Musical with the Bristol Old Vic, Kind Hearts and Coronets (national tour) and a two-hander with Susannah York called Double Double.
Written By - Joanna Bourke
Performed By : Tim Pigott-Smith
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 4 hours 45 minutes
Categories : 20th Century
British
Social & Economic
Price : $27.75
Authentic voices from the past illustrate this unique history of the Twentieth Century, written by Joanna Bourke and presented by Tim Pigott-Smith More info... |
Written By - Christopher Lee
Performed By : Anna Massey and Robert Powell
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 3 hours
Categories : Non Fiction
British
20th Century
Price : $22.75
Continuing the award winning BBC radio 4 series of the story of Britain, from the start of the Twentieth Century to the present day More info... |
Written By - David Starkey
Performed By : Patricia Hodge
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Runtime : 6 hours 31 minutes
Categories : Historical
Royalty and Heads of State
British
Pre 1900
Biographical
Price : $17.49
The first of his wives was Catherine of Aragon, the pious Catholic princess who suffered years of miscarriages... More info... |
Written By - Wendy McElroy
Performed By : Harry Reasoner, Peter Hackes, and Richard C. Hottelet
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Runtime : 3 hours
Categories : Pre 1900
20th Century
British
Social & Economic
Price : $12.95
The "isle of poets and scholars" has known almost constant warfare for centuries. In 1920, it was divided into North and South; yet this purely political solution left a religious and cultural schi... More info... |
Written By - Simon Schama
Performed By : Timothy West
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 10 hours 55 minutes
Categories : British
History
Pre 1900
20th Century
Price : $40.49
Award-winning historian Simon Schama completes his monumental three-volume history of Britain, which accompanies the acclaimed television epic. More info... |
