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-peopletalk.org Episodes - | Bodiam Castle | Bodiam Castle impressive towers and broad moat are like a scene from a fantasy as you gaze at them for the very first time. At a quick glance it appears to be the very epitome of a medieval castle, until closer inspection is given. | to send to friends | Download Bodiam Castle | Play in Popup.
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| Murder walk promo | We take you on a sinister, yet fascinating journey through two centuries of local English crime and malice, meeting villains of all sorts along the way - cut-throats, poisoners, murderous lovers, trunk murderers and suicides. | to send to friends | Download Murder walk promo | Play in Popup.
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| -peopletalk.org Story 12 | Our story today is about personal bravery and one young man's gallantry in WWII and how he won a Military Cross fighting in Germany, at the
tender age of twenty.
From the Brighton and Hove Herald Saturday, June 23, 1945.
Twice Wounded
But Led His Men | to send to friends | Download -peopletalk.org Story 12 | Play in Popup.
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| -peopletalk.org Tour 03 | Our tour today is to Brightons Toy and Model Museum on the south coast of England. Christopher Littledale is a self-effacing man in his early sixties who might appear a little eccentric to people who don't know him. I spent a couple happy hours being shown around the museum by him. He explained about his lifelong passion for toys, so much so that his passion took over his life and his small apartment. In the end, things came to a head when his friends intervened and persuaded John that he needed to find a permanent home for his vast million pound collection. | to send to friends | Download -peopletalk.org Tour 03 | Play in Popup.
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| -peopletalk.org Story 14-The Last Man to be Hanged for Sheep Stealing. | An interview with author Audrey Farley. The picturesque Sussex Village of Telscombe, tucked in a hollow in the South Downs, would seem like one of the last places to find the final resting place of the last man to be hanged for sheep stealing.As we follow the story of the two brothers who committed this crime in 1819, the trail leads us through newspaper reports, parish records, census records and other sources, to the Assizes Court, the Gallows, Prison Hulks and to Botany Bay. And what became of the families they left behind? The lives of these two men and their families were spent in and around the Sussex villages and towns of Falmer, Telscombe, Rottingdean, Southwick, Horsham, Botolphs and Newhaven. | to send to friends | Download -peopletalk.org Story 14-The Last Man to be Hanged for Sheep Stealing. | Play in Popup.
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| -peopletalk.org Audio Book-3-Japanese Story read by Sadao Ueda | RASHOMON by RYUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA read by Sadao Ueda. Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. 'Rashomon' and 'In a Bamboo Grove' inspired Kurosawa's magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upside down, while tales such as 'The Nose', 'O-Gin' and 'Loyalty' paint a rich and imaginative picture of a medieval Japan peopled by Shoguns and priests, vagrants and peasants. And in later works such as 'Death Register', 'The Life of a Stupid Man' and 'Spinning Gears', Akutagawa drew from his own life to devastating effect, revealing his intense melancholy and terror of madness in exquisitely moving impressionistic stories. | to send to friends | Download -peopletalk.org Audio Book-3-Japanese Story read by Sadao Ueda | Play in Popup.
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| -peopletalk.org Audio Book-7-Ghamba read by Sandra Ventris | Ghamba by William Charles Scully. Many people have heard or read of the cannibals of Natal, who turned large tracts of country into a shambles in the early part of this century, after Tshaka's impis had swept off all the cattle, and then kept the miserable people continually on the move so that they were unable to cultivate. One Umdava originated the practice of eating human flesh. Gathering together the fragments of four scattered tribes, he trained them to hunt human beings as others hunted game. This gang was a greater scourge to the country surrounding the present site of Pietermaritzburg than even Tshaka's murdering hordes. It was broken up in or about the year 1824, when the Europeans first came to the country, and the remnants of many scattered tribes returned and settled under their protection. | to send to friends | Download -peopletalk.org Audio Book-7-Ghamba read by Sandra Ventris | Play in Popup.
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