Join Anthony Head, Richard Johnson, Geoffrey Whitehead, Tom Allen, Sarah Hadland and David Mitchell in the second volume of this magnificent Dickensian comic epic first transmitted by the British Broadcasting Club’s Radio 4. Volume two of ‘Bleak Expectations’ follows Pip Bin as he ventures through Victorian Britain in constant battle with his evil and badly named ex-guardian Mr Gently Benevolent. On the way he builds...
Arctic explorer, survival expert and naturalist Freddy Spencer Chapman was trapped behind enemy lines when the Japanese overran Malaya in 1942. His response was to begin a commando campaign of such lethal effectiveness that the Japanese deployed an entire regiment against him, hunting for him as they did for no other. He was wounded, and racked by tropical disease. His companions were killed, or captured...