The Hampdenshire Wonder - J. D. Beresford - BBC Saturday Night Theatre 

Audio is seriously messed up.

Lll

Yes, this child was far beyond just knowing stuff, as his conversation with the Magistrate proved after coming almost to the end of Encyclopaedia Britannia . "Is this all?" he ask. And went on to talk about the inner life and the essence of things, the meaning of life. Thankfully many societies today are more open to embracing difference but there are always those whose fears of uncertainty paralyse them. When I was growing up I used to ask a lot of un-welcomed questions about the religion I was being taught and came to understand that it was best not to try to ask for reason and/or logic from people who had not been raised to have an original idea, but were brain washed. So I kept on reading and learning and thankfully met people eventually during the course of life who dared to question and discovere new things like I was doing. I'm still learning, listening, discovering. I don't always find the answers, but I can 'hold' the questions and wait to come to some form of acceptance that for now I'll have to wait. Maybe those who come after me will find satisfactory results. But there will always be uncertainty, difference, questions etc as we are an evolving consciousness. There will never be an end to learning.

Worse is the combination of ignorance & proud of it.

I agree

Yes. Sadly , both are virtually forgotten today. What would they have thought about ' Strictly Come Dancing ' or ' I'm a Celebrity '....? ( I think we can guess ? Although even in their wildest imagination they may not have foreseen just how low our standards would fall )

Too late 😢

We're lucky to have these recordings. The BBC is negligent of its past catalogue.

Too many audio skips and glitches. Very distracting.

So you felt the uncontrollable urge to divulge to all and sundry both the crime and who did it. You must be a really fun person to know. You are correct the actors are very good and anybody who reads your comment before listening would have enjoyed the story so much more without you bursting the balloon. Bet you always have a hatpin handy .... just in case. Do future listeners a favour and edit your comment or change your name to Karen.

Even more true is the fact that murders like that have played out on a world wide scale. All in the name of perpetual ignorance.

@@anaderol5408 and yourself seem the type to only read a book or see a film based on how others review it. Next time try and dive in first, without the approval you seek from persons whom you dont even know.

@@paulramsey8187 I can't remember whether I read the comments for this book before or after I listened to the book. Nonetheless it is unnecessary to divulge the plot. The benefit of comments may be in relation to the style of narration, or writing. Often such comments can be useful. If they were not useful then the platoons of book / film / play etc reviewers would cease to exist. they exist because people enjoy their reviews. Whether one takes heed of such reviews is a matter of personal choice. However, divulging the complete plot is never appropriate.

Um .... spoilers??

Why do you think this

That was the point.

@@debbiesunlight7047 I'm not entirely sure. It affected me in a negative way.

I agree. I’m on 11 minutes and I’m going to leave.

We do not refer to our children as it - of course not !

@@carolynnilsen9270 just trying to see if this was cultural or idiosyncratic. Thank you.

This was written in 1911. I'm sure at that time, no matter what nationality, people had unsympathetic language for those who were considered "different"

Thanks for the spoiler. I’ve stopped listening now!

@@jilliran Don't read the comments before listening.I do it as i can't help myself but it's daft really lol

@@muftydog I’m so glad I did. I don’t want to listen to such sadness. There’s enough out there now.

I won’t carry on listening, it’s rather depressing.

You bloody well spoilt it for me now