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3. Visit

5 November 1746, New York. Tea at the house on Golden Hill with Tabitha Lovell proves revelatory. Read by Jamie Parker.

5 November 1746, New York - a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island.

Tea at the house on Golden Hill with Tabitha Lovell proves revelatory. Elsewhere, Pope Day is celebrated with bacchanalian gusto

This is New York in its infancy, a place where a young man with a fast tongue can invent himself afresh, fall in love, and find a world of trouble.

Francis Spufford鈥檚 novel read by Jamie Parker

Abridged by Isobel Creed and Jill Waters
Producer: Jill Waters

A Waters Company production for 大象传媒 Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2017.

15 minutes

Last on

Thu 12 Aug 2021 02:00

Credits

Role Contributor
Reader Jamie Parker
Author Francis Spufford
Abridger Isobel Creed
Abridger Jill Waters
Producer Jill Waters

Broadcasts

  • Wed 17 May 2017 22:45
  • Wed 11 Aug 2021 14:00
  • Thu 12 Aug 2021 02:00