From Neville Chamberlain’s historic declaration of war on Germany in 1939 to the sounds of rejoicing crowds on VJ Day in August 1945, the BBC – regarded at home and abroad as the very voice of Britain and the world’s most trusted broadcaster – brought the full picture to an attentive nation. This unique chronicle of war has the same rawness and immediacy as when the recordings were first broadcast over 60 years ago.
In the year 1780, Harriet Westerman, the willful mistress of a country manor in Sussex, finds a dead man on her grounds with a ring bearing the crest of Thornleigh Hall in his pocket. Not one to be bound by convention or to shy away from adventure, she recruits a reclusive local anatomist named Gabriel Crowther to help her find the murderer, and historical suspense's newest investigative duo is born.
.jpg)
.jpg)
