THE CASE OF "The Five Orange Pips", from the late 1880s, was one of Sherlock Holmes's rare failures: he identified the doom that stalked the Openshaw family, but could not prevent the murder of his client. By contrast, Holmes's investigation a dec
On 15 June 1920, the Marconi Company broadcast the world’s first live recital by a professional musician - the legendary Australian diva, Dame Nellie Melba. In a makeshift studio in the company’s factory at Chelmsford, using a microphone created wit
Read more…Three short plays by Jill Woods, each one a wry look at the flawed nature of humanity.
"A Perfect Match" contrasts an ex-officer's shallow obsession with his village cricket match and a former squaddy's touching tribute to his late wife. There's a
Read more…A gentle comedy that that reveals the truth behind the great fuel train robbery and the part played in it by a certain Mr Robin Hood. And all, so the authors claim, very loosely based on a true event.
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Read more…Night-time on a lonely bridge high above a railway track. Two people meet, unintentionally - a woman and a man, each with a desperate and private reason for being there.
Earlier that day a body was recovered from the line, the ninety-ninth person
Read more…The police refuse to continue providing personal protection for Wallace Starshine – much to his disgust. After all, he’s a Very Important Person, with a string of chart-toppers to his credit, and a faithful fan-base in the Benelux countries. But th
Read more…If you want to create a tangled web, it isn’t always necessary to PRACTISE to deceive. Here, an off-the-cuff white lie about a smear of blood and a garage door leads two young twins to alarming assumptions about their well-meaning but not entirely
Read more…Clap hands if you believe in fairies!
Do you believe in them? You know, those precious little creatures with their delicate filmy wings, wearing clothes made from flower petals, and holding magic wands?
You won’t - not after you meet this lot! Th
Read more…In early February 1922, from a small ex-army hut in a field just outside the village of Writtle near Chelmsford, a small team of pioneering wireless engineers working for the Marconi company established Britain’s first regular radio broadcasting st
Read more…Susanna is proud of her garden, so proud that she wants to open it to discriminating members of the public – and she sticks to the rule that has served her throughout ten years of marriage: Susanna knows best.
After a good deal of hard work by her
Read more…"Shortly before his death I asked him what he really thought on the subject, since he had written better ghost-stories than any man living. He answered: 'Depend upon it! Some of these things are so, but we do not know the rules!'" --- Shane Leslie
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It's late June, in 1953. Two weeks ago, despite the torrential rain, the Coronation went off perfectly. Now, the skies are blue, the grass is green, and the sun is shining. This is Midsummer the way it should be - Midsummer as we'll always remembe
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It wasn’t just the Dome and the London Eye, you know. As the new Millennium approached, people in every city, town and village were meeting to decide how they were going to mark the great event.
In the little Essex village of Midsummer Laver, all
Read more…Remember the great Mangle War and the part played in it by the Mangle Boys with their song “The French Can’t Make Mangles Like We Can”?
In time, of course, Eddie Fitlow and Ernie Turpin retired, but the fate of the famous Fitlow Mangle was a myste
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A home for retired variety artistes should be a quiet haven after the excitement of their career, but the aged entertainers at this particular refuge have no intention of giving up showbiz! They get their chance again when young Clayton Seymore in
Read more…The spirit of the Mangle Boys lives on!
Remember them - Eddie Fitlow and Ernie Turpin? They were big, back in the golden days of the Music Hall! Both were stars in their own right, each topping the bill at theatres throughout the country. But the
Read more…Jack is an old time rocker who is going to sing one more time. But will his dysfunctional family back him up, or will it all end in tears?
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When her evil brother swindles the cantankerous Lady Caroline Tipstandley out of house and home, her butler Fenchurch, realising that she is now broke, and so can’t afford to pay his wages, shows his loyalty by dumping her.
Whilst hunting for a n
Read more…The Blues came to us from the Southern states of America. Right?
Not according to Bill Farrow. He claims to have proof that the Blues originated in the London Docks, in the days when men would sweat and strain, bodies all aching and racked with pa
Read more…Bernie’s lottery win, making him a triple millionaire, is not the cause for celebration it should be, when he resolves to share it with the teenager who saved his life. The result is an unexpected case of blackmail.
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