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Tom Peters and Everard G. Roxdal are an oddly-matched couple sharing rooms in London. They couldn't be more different, yet they are firm friends. But things become complicated when Everard's fiancée meets Tom, and a criminal conspiracy changes all their lives for ever...
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Israel Zangwill (1864–1926) was a journalist, playwright, poet and novelist, who earned the nickname "the Dickens of the Ghetto" for his powerful writing and political activism. He was born in London, the elder son of Moses Zangwill and his wife Ellen Hannah Marks Zangwill, immigrants from the Russian empire; his younger brother Lewis Zangwill also became a well-known novelist. Israel Zangwill was educated initially in Plymouth and Bristol before moving to the Jews' Free School in London at the age of nine. He later became a teacher and graduated from the University of London in 1884, but eventually gave up teaching to work as a journalist. As a writer he is perhaps best remembered today for his play 'The Melting Pot', depicting the lives of immigrants to America which was a huge success in the United States in 1909. Former President Theodore Roosevelt was apparently very impressed by the performance he attended, and subsequently corresponded with Zangwill. Other notable works include 'The Big Bow Mystery' (1892), one of the earliest "locked room mysteries" in fiction. Zangwill was politically active, supporting various causes including women's suffrage and pacifism, and promoted the idea of moving beyond ethnicities to combine into a new nation, as depicted in 'The Melting Pot'. He married the author and activist Edith Ayrton; they had two sons, the younger of whom, Oliver Zangwill, became a prominent psychologist in the 20th century. Israel Zangwill died in Sussex in August 1926, aged 62.
'Cheating the Gallows' first appeared in 'The Idler' in February 1893.
Recording © Bitesized Audio 2021.
Tom Peters and Everard G. Roxdal are an oddly-matched couple sharing rooms in London. They couldn't be more different, yet they are firm friends. But things become complicated when Everard's fiancée meets Tom, and a criminal conspiracy changes all their lives for ever...
A new, original recording of a classic public domain text, read and performed by Simon Stanhope for Bitesized Audio.
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Israel Zangwill (1864–1926) was a journalist, playwright, poet and novelist, who earned the nickname "the Dickens of the Ghetto" for his powerful writing and political activism. He was born in London, the elder son of Moses Zangwill and his wife Ellen Hannah Marks Zangwill, immigrants from the Russian empire; his younger brother Lewis Zangwill also became a well-known novelist. Israel Zangwill was educated initially in Plymouth and Bristol before moving to the Jews' Free School in London at the age of nine. He later became a teacher and graduated from the University of London in 1884, but eventually gave up teaching to work as a journalist. As a writer he is perhaps best remembered today for his play 'The Melting Pot', depicting the lives of immigrants to America which was a huge success in the United States in 1909. Former President Theodore Roosevelt was apparently very impressed by the performance he attended, and subsequently corresponded with Zangwill. Other notable works include 'The Big Bow Mystery' (1892), one of the earliest "locked room mysteries" in fiction. Zangwill was politically active, supporting various causes including women's suffrage and pacifism, and promoted the idea of moving beyond ethnicities to combine into a new nation, as depicted in 'The Melting Pot'. He married the author and activist Edith Ayrton; they had two sons, the younger of whom, Oliver Zangwill, became a prominent psychologist in the 20th century. Israel Zangwill died in Sussex in August 1926, aged 62.
'Cheating the Gallows' first appeared in 'The Idler' in February 1893.
Recording © Bitesized Audio 2021.
