The Lady Rohesia
A distraught husband sits at the foot of his dying wife's bed, and considers who he might marry next. Read by Nicholas Murchie and Lucy Robinson.
Nicholas Murchie and Lucy Robinson read from a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, but actually penned by the Rev Richard Barham, first published in book form in 1840.
A distraught husband sits at the foot of his dying wife's bed, and considers who he might marry next.
Abridged by Robin Brooks.
A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
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- Mon 14 Dec 200922:45BBC Radio 4
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