The adverts are nothing to do with me, I'm afraid, so complaining to me about RU-vid's insertion of them is pointless. I can only suggest you look into the many ad suppression options that are available.
Another great fun play in this series! The script is so witty & clever & the casting of each role perfect. Just for a while I feel like I'm living in Coward's world so beautifully recreated. Thank you for uploading, I had not heard this series before, they are gems & will now search for the other two plays I haven't heard yet! 🎉
I have heard the others on Radio4 Xtra. Blithe Spy, A Bullet at Balmains and Death at a Desert Inn. A shame there are not more. Great scripts and characters. There is also Noel Coward’s South Sea Bubble in radio play format out there too.
Magnifique !! I'm not French but it's the only word that fits !! H E Bates ...? Another " forgotten " English writer like L P Hartley , John Wyndham A J Cronin and many others...How fortunate we are to have the Magpie to remind us that there was " great writing " before Martin Amis and Co...
I think it was roughly the same number as the Japanese civilians killed by the Americans in their bombing raids (though obviously American bombers also carried out plenty of raids on Germany too). Either way it was considerably more than the mere 70,000 British people killed by German bombs. I'm not clear how any of that is relevant to the unambiguous murder of unarmed prisoners though.
Just as in the Jack Aubrey dramatisations David Robb seems to think he has to bellow every line....! Even Olivier at his hammiest knew to tone it down occasionally...???!!!
What a great audio play. Absolutely intriguing and so well-voiced, if that's the correct term. On the lines of the ‘Rivers of London’…. Loving it! .. Thank you very much for uploading.
There is a series 2, already on the channel. And some time I plan on uploading a series called 'Undone' which is a comedy fantasy set in another surreal version of London that exists over the top of the 'real' one...
@@MysticalMagpie-wo5fn I like the sound of that too.. If we have to wait some time for series 3 of ‘London Particular’, then would you please upload ‘Undone’ very soon. Thank you, I look forward to it.
Possibly Hammond Innes joking as you say, though the nickname 'Chuck Berry' would be typical of some British humour appropriating popular culture (there's a 'Flash' Gordon in Len Deighton's novel 'Bomber'). The Jebel Mountains, however, sounds like the kind of redundancy that is pretty routine in English. The most common contemporary example is 'PIN number', but people especially do it when they encounter other languages and you can just imagine the cliche of Europeans pointing at some mountains and saying 'what's that mountain called?' and being told 'Jabal', and then going away thinking 'ah, the Jabal mountains...'. Terry Pratchett joked about this in one of his books with a mountain called 'I Don't Know, Just a Mountain', so perhaps Hammond Innes was doing something similar...
@@MysticalMagpie-wo5fn Thank you for posting. I lived in Qatar for 4 years, teaching mostly Arabic speaking nursing students, travelling to Omansome of the Emirates. & learning some Arabic. It seems pretty clear to me that Innes knew his stuff when it came to the basic geography and peoples of the arabian peninsula and had a reasonable basic "restaurant" understanding of Arabic..Some names were real (Sharjah, where one of my friends taught). This isnt a place where English names hold and "Jebel Mtns" don't exist so it certainly wasnt a name placed by any Europeans. "Allah Akbar" (God is great) is the source of Jebel Akbar.
Whether English or Scottish, those of a certain social position would have attended private education and would therefore have spoken in Received English.
Just 15 years ago, these great stories were a staple. Now it is too often horrendously awful unfunny programs, with announcers making heavy, slow, obvious jokes and guffawing and doing their best to seem stupid and undereducated in order to be accessible.
I remember my 7th grade teacher reading this to us. I remember her yelling, "He's here! He's here! Almeric's here!" and my heart was pounding. I tried to find this book on Audible with no luck. Thank you for posting this!
@@ryanbaker8116 I'm afraid you're quite right, this is the last of them... the series finished nearly 20 years ago now. But I am looking to see if I can find more steampunk-style radio adventures...
