This Sceptred Isle: Volumes 1-10 (BBC Radio Collection) by Christopher Lee
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd (1 Oct 1999) | ISBN: 0563557494 | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/Variable | 128 MB
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd (1 Oct 1999) | ISBN: 0563557494 | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/Variable | 128 MB
This Sceptred Isle was created as a series of short 12-14 minute radio programmes by the BBC for transmission daily on Radio 4 from 1995 about the history of the lands and peoples of the British Isles. The producer was Pete Atkin. Starting in 55 BC with the arrival of Julius Caesar and initially concluding in 1901 with the death of Queen Victoria, the series was read by Anna Massey and included extracts from the book A History of the English-speaking Peoples written by Sir Winston Churchill, interwoven into Christopher Lee's main account of the history…