The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey

Written by Josephine Tey
Read by Afternoon Theatre
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Dramatization

Afternoon Theatre: The Daughter of Time
The 1951 novel by Josephine Tey dramatised by Neville Teller
BBC Radio 4 FM, 25 December 1982 15.00

==== About the book ====
The Daughter of Time is a 1951 detective novel by Josephine Tey, concerning a modern police officer’s investigation into the alleged crimes of King Richard III of England. It was the last book Tey published in her lifetime, shortly before her death.

Alan Grant, Scotland Yard Inspector (a character who also appears in five other novels by the same author) is feeling bored while confined to bed in hospital with a broken leg. Marta Hallard, an actress friend of his, suggests that he should amuse himself by researching a historical mystery. She brings him some pictures of historical characters, aware of Grant’s interest in human faces. He becomes intrigued by a portrait of King Richard III. He prides himself on being able to read a person’s character from his appearance, and King Richard seems to him a gentle, kind and wise man. Why is everyone so sure that he was a cruel murderer?

With the help of other friends and acquaintances, Grant investigates Richard’s life and the case of the Princes in the Tower, testing out his theories on the doctors and nurses who attend to him. Grant spends weeks pondering historical information and documents with the help of Brent Carradine, a likable young American researcher working in the British Museum. Using his detective’s logic, he comes to the conclusion that the claim of Richard being a murderer is a fabrication of Tudor propaganda, as is the popular image of the King as a monstrous hunchback.

==== About the play ====
http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/d17e240a356c40c0b25145ca46bb932d

Afternoon Theatre: The Daughter of Time
BBC Radio 4 FM, 25 December 1982 15.00
Synopsis
The 1951 novel by JOSEPHINE TEY dramatised by NEVILLE TELLER
Laid up in hospital. Inspector Grant decides to fill his days by trying to solve the riddle of the murder of the two Princes in the Tower.
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD
Contributors
Novel By: Josephine Tey
Dramatised By: Neville Teller
Directed By: Graham Gauld
Alan Grant: Peter Gilmore
Nurse Ingham: Frances Jeater
Nurse Darroll: Jill Lidstone
Marta Hallard: Rosalind Shanks
Brent Carradine: Simon Hewitt
Richard: Steve Hodson
Tyrrel: Nigel Lambert
Brackenbury: Lewis Stringer
Lady Paston: Miranda Forbes
Edward: Graham Faulkner
Matron: Katherine Parr
Williams: Stuart Organ
Morton: Peter Tuddenham
Buckingham: Alex Jennings
Stillington: James Thomason
Sir John: Alaric Cotter

==== Included in this torrent ====

The Daughter of Time - BBC.mp3
File size : 41.4 MiB
Duration : 1h 52mn
VBR average bit rate : 51.6 Kbps
mono 22.050 kHz

Josephine Tey - The Daughter of Time.epub
— epub of the original novel.

Richard_III.jpg
— from National Portrait Gallery, mentioned in book and play.

Edward III family tree.gif
Nevill family tree.gif