![]() This collection comprises all 10 radio series plus a special Saturday Drama centring on the Great Fire of London. In this major BBC Radio dramatisation of the journals, the sights and sounds of his world are vividly conjured. Over 350 years may have passed since Pepys first put pen to paper, but the man and his preoccupations feel surprisingly familiar. He described London - the frozen river Thames, the rising crime rate and the poverty - and recorded the details of his own life: his wife, rivals, lovers and friends, his work for the Navy, his drinking and social life. He also told us what people ate and wore, what they did for fun, the tricks they played on each other, what they expected of marriage, and even how they conducted love affairs. Pepys gave us eyewitness accounts of some of the great events of the 17th century, including the Great Fire of London and the Second Dutch War. That diary has since become one of our most important, and fascinating, historical documents. ![]() For the next 10 years he faithfully recorded the day's events and confessed his innermost thoughts. Samuel Pepys was 26 when he decided to start keeping a diary, in January 1660. ![]() ![]() ![]() The BBC’s site for getting tickets to recordings says this. There doesn’t seem to be much information around. Kris Marshall and Katherine Jakeways star as Mr & Mrs Pepys in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of the world famous diaries. The BBC have a new radio sitcom in development called Pauline Pepys’ Dowry, with the pilot episode set to be recorded this week. On Friday 7 March 1958, the BBC aired the first of fourteen 30-minute episodes of The Diary of Samuel Pepys, setting the action for that first scene in. ![]()
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