3. Visit

5 November 1746, New York - a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island.

Tea at the house on Golden Hill with Tabitha Lovell proves revelatory. Elsewhere, Pope Day is celebrated with bacchanalian gusto

This is New York in its infancy, a place where a young man with a fast tongue can invent himself afresh, fall in love, and find a world of trouble.

Francis Spufford’s novel read by Jamie Parker

Abridged by Isobel Creed and Jill Waters
Producer: Jill Waters

A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2017.