My audio tour to day is of Bodiam Castle which stands on the borders of Kent and Sussex in south-east England. It was originally built as an extremely fortified manor house and is a symmetrical square stone castle surrounded by an artificial lake fed by underground springs.The appearance of Bodiam Castle is exactly how most people imagine a medieval castle should look like, with its square of walls, a round tower at each corner, and a square tower midway along each wall, entirely surrounded by a...
Jun 01, 2007•33 min
Sandra Ventris reads part eight of Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott. Please click on the Comments to leave your feedback.Sandra Ventris is a professional Actress. If you wish to know more about Sandra please visit her page on this site .Podsafe Music:Intro Music by Demetrio Katis: Isles of Dannan. Home Web page Demetrio Katis www.peopletalk.org...
May 16, 2007•18 min
Sandra Ventris reads part seven of Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott. Please click on the Comments to leave your feedback.Sandra Ventris is a professional Actress. If you wish to know more about Sandra please visit her page on this site .Podsafe Music:Intro Music by Demetrio Katis: Isles of Dannan. Home Web page Demetrio Katis www.peopletalk.org...
Apr 20, 2007•20 min
My walk about to day is to Ovingdean, a pretty little hamlet about two miles from the sea on the south coast of England. I visit the early Norman little church of St Wulfrans recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as a "little church". Some of my information came from the excellent web site mybrightonandhove.org.uk. Please visit their site which is full of interesting information about Brighton & Hove. Music: The Lark Ascending, Vaughan Williams...
Mar 27, 2007•20 min
Sandra Ventris reads part six of Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott. Please click on the Comments to leave your feedback.Sandra Ventris is a professional Actress. If you wish to know more about Sandra please visit her page on this site .Podsafe Music:Intro Music by Demetrio Katis: Isles of Dannan. Home Web page Demetrio Katis www.peopletalk.org...
Mar 25, 2007•18 min
Sandra Ventris reads part five of Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott. Please click on the Comments to leave your feedback.Sandra Ventris is a professional Actress. If you wish to know more about Sandra please visit her page on this site .Podsafe Music:Intro Music by Demetrio Katis: Isles of Dannan. Home Web page Demetrio Katis www.peopletalk.org...
Mar 15, 2007•18 min
Sandra Ventris reads part four of Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott. Please click on the Comments to leave your feedback.Sandra Ventris is a professional Actress. If you wish to know more about Sandra please visit her page on this site .Podsafe Music:Intro Music by Demetrio Katis: Isles of Dannan. Home Web page Demetrio Katis www.peopletalk.org...
Mar 01, 2007•18 min
Word Games written by Gary Mepsted and read by Claire Mitchell. Please click on the Comments to leave your feedback.Claire Mitchell is a Voice Over artist and you can contact her on07812 177427. please visit her page on this site An original monologue Word Games written by Gary Mepsted andprodced by Nigel Killick. Podsafe Music: Intro Music by Gary Mepsted. please visit his page on this site www.peopletalk.libsyn.com...
Feb 18, 2007•19 min
Sandra Ventris reads part three of Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott. Please click on the Comments to leave your feedback.Sandra Ventris is a professional Actress. If you wish to know more about Sandra please visit her page on this site .Podsafe Music:Intro Music by Demetrio Katis: Isles of Dannan. Home Web page Demetrio Katis www.peopletalk.org...
Feb 16, 2007•18 min
Our story to day 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. (states the official citation) The superb example and personal bravery over a long period, under the most difficult conditions, shown by Lieutenant Ventris was beyond praise and was largely responsible for this important objective being' captured," added the citation. His initiative, encouragement and coolness on the battle-field undoub...
Feb 11, 2007•45 min
Sandra Ventris reads part two of Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott. Please click on the Comments to leave your feedback.Sandra Ventris is a professional Actress. If you wish to know more about Sandra please visit her page on this site .Of all the beautiful women of history, none has left us such convincingproofs of her charms as Cleopatra, for the tide of Rome's destiny, and,therefore, that of the world, turned aside because of her beauty. JuliusCaesar, whose legions trampled the conquered world from Ca...
Feb 08, 2007•17 min
Sandra Ventris reads part one of Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott. Please click on the Comments to leave your feedback.Sandra Ventris is a professional Actress. If you wish to know more about Sandra please visit her page on this site. Of all the beautiful women of history, none has left us such convincingproofs of her charms as Cleopatra, for the tide of Rome's destiny, and,therefore, that of the world, turned aside because of her beauty. JuliusCaesar, whose legions trampled the conquered world from Ca...
Feb 06, 20070
www.peopletalk.libsyn.com Information for Actors and Voice over artists. If you want to know more about how peopletalk works with it's actors and voice over artists. But I first have to ask, do you realise this is not a paying job and that we receive no payments of any kind for our audio recordings on the peopletalk or Apple iTunes web site? If you know that, and are still interested, then the next step is for you to contact us after reading and listening to the audio for actors on above, just c...
Jan 23, 2007•4 min
Sandra Ventris is a professional Actress. If you wish to know more about Sandra please visit her page on this site. Ghambia by William Scully When Corporal Francis Dollond and Trooper James Franks, of the Natal Mounted Police, overstayed their ten days' leave of absence from the camp on the Upper Tugela, in the early part of 1883, everybody was much surprised; they being two of the best conducted and most methodical men in the force. But the weeks and then the months went by without anything wha...
Jan 21, 2007•56 min
Judi Pusey is an American from California, who has been living in a small English village in the South of England for the last eighteen years. When she first arrived she felt terribly home sick because she found the lifestyle a little too slow after coming from the busy 24/7 rat race of California, but now she feels at home amongst the Brits in this sleepy little English village. www.peopletalk.org
Jan 19, 2007•26 min
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Jan 13, 2007•56 min
Sadao Ueda is a professional Actor who trained at the Academy of Creative Training in Brighton. If you wish to know more about Sadao please visit his page on this site .Ryunosuke Akutagawa wrote no full-length novels, focusing instead on the short story of which he wrote over 150 during his brief life, including The Nose, The Spider's Thread, The Hell Screen, Autumn, The Ball, In a Grove, and Kappa. Akira Kurosawa directed the film Rashmon (1950) based on Akutagawa's stories; the majority of the...
Jan 08, 2007•16 min
Anne Conway is a successful reportage and travel photographer with nearly 30 years experience.Anne studied photography at the prestigious West Surrey school of Art in the south of England in the late 70s before moving to Paris, where she embarked on her career as a freelance photographer.She started working for various important editors,who sent her on assignments round the world to produce articles and photographic material for books and magazines Her photographic style is very distinctive, ver...
Jan 01, 2007•20 min
Malcolm Clark is a professional Actor who trained at the Academy of Creative Training in Brighton. If you wish to know more about Malcolm please visit his page on this site . Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and The Island of Doctor Moreau. He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and produced wor...
Dec 24, 2006•1 hr 4 min
This was my first podcast, a walk-about in Rudyard Kiplings' village Rottingdean in Sussex on a hot summers day last year. Kipling was the author of the Jungle Book and many other stories. Kipling was born in Bombay on December 30th 1865, son of John Lockwood Kipling, an artist and teacher of architectural sculpture, and his wife Alice. His mother was one of the talented and beautiful Macdonald sisters, four of whom married remarkable men, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Sir Edward Poynter, Alfred Baldw...
Dec 18, 2006•38 min
Our Sound-seeing tour today is to Brighton's Toy and Model Museum on the south coast of England. Chris 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 Chris that ...
Dec 04, 2006•48 min
Today we take you on a tour of Brighton with author Douglas d'Enno as he tells us about his book FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS AROUND BRIGHTON and gives us fascinating details about Brighton and its macabre past.His gripping volume covers two centuries of murderous doings in Brighton portrayed in fifteen vivid case histories. All the crimes took place within the town except two, where the victims were prominent Brighton citizens traveling on business. www.peopletalk.org...
Nov 27, 2006•1 hr 10 min
The author of this captivating book, Audrey Farley, talks to us about her book JAMES LULHAM OF TELSCOMBE: The last man to be hanged for Sheep Stealing? In our interview she talks about James as if he was an old friend while she describes the whole sad story to us.From the book: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 st...
Nov 20, 2006•26 min
As I was going about my locality trying to find interesting stories about people and places, I met a man on a bus. We got talking, as you do, and it soon became apparent to me that the chap I was talking to was an interesting feller.In our conversation, we exchanged the normal chat about the weather - the kind of exchange that only the English seem to relish. Soon the conversation turned to what each of us was doing in our semi-retirement. I mentioned that I was involved with an internet radio s...
Nov 13, 2006•30 min
SERV, also known as the 'Blood Runners', is a charitable organisation that delivers blood products to the emergency and accident hospitals across Southern England at night free of charge when official Health Service transportation services don't operate.SERV is a Registered Charity (#284455) run by dedicated volunteer motorcyclists and drivers who give their time and petrol to do their bit using their bikes and cars to help others who need emergency supplies of blood. SERV provides a service tha...
Nov 06, 2006•23 min
Lucky and Hollie run a tattoo studio on the south coast of England. Their studio is called Skin Candy. In their interviews they talk about what it takes to become a tattooist, their take on life and how tattooing has changed in the last ten years. They were very kind and understanding while we moved in all our cameras and recording equipment. We have created a link to photographs taken of their work and customers, which we hope will give you more of an impression of what a tattooing studio is al...
Oct 30, 20060
Katherine Schellenberg was born in 1932, to second generation emigrant farmers in Aberdeen, Saskatchewan, Canada.To Katherine the iconic images of the great depression are more than just old black and white photographs of men waiting in bread lines, working in relief camps and protesting against their dreadful destitution.She remembers the poverty and great dust storms sweeping across the Western prairies, making it impossible for her family to feed themselves, these are real memories for her no...
Oct 23, 2006•36 min
Sandra Ventris is a professional Actress. If you wish to know more about Sandra please visit her page on this site . ANTON CHEKHOV (1860-1904) Anton Chekhov Born on January 29, 1860, one of Russia's most cherished storytellers. Chekhov began writing short stories during his days as a medical student at the University of Moscow. After graduating in 1884 with a degree in medicine, he began to freelance as a journalist and writer of comic sketches. Early in his career, he mastered the form of the o...
Oct 20, 2006•27 min
Gareth Goldthorpe is a very fit and young looking sixty one year old, who has been a bookbinder for the last twenty years. In his interview, he talks about his unconventional and somewhat eccentric childhood, being sent off to boarding school at the tender age of five, and how he ran away, traveling some fifteen miles back to his parent's home. He then goes on to tell us about a golden time, when childhood seemed more adventurous while being carefree and relaxed: How he and his brothers cycled s...
Oct 16, 2006•44 min
