Episode 1
It is a rainy night in 1625, Tom Neave's life nearly ends as soon as it has begun.
Written by Peter Ransley. Abridged by Eileen Horne.
It is 1625 - on a rainy night in Oxfordshire, Tom Neave's life nearly ends as soon as it has begun, when Lord Stonehouse orders that the newborn must be cast into the plague pit - but the future holds much more in store for the red-haired, hot tempered boy who relates the story of his early years, from a childhood at the docks in Poplar into an apprenticeship at a City printers, which will take him into the the heart of politics at a turning point in British history.
Read by Jamie Glover
Producer: Clive Brill
A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
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- Mon 11 Apr 201122:45BBC Radio 4
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