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Black Bartlemy's Treasure

Black Bartlemy's Treasure - Jeffery Farnol

bookshelves: radio-4x, spring-2012, swashbuckler, treasure, pirates-smugglers-wreckers, fradio, 3m-bookshelf-challenge, play-dramatisation, seven-seas, published-1920

Recommended for: 3M's
Read from May 25 to 26, 2012

 



A swashbuckling classic for saturday morning. Starring Steven Pacey and Julia Swift.

blurb - Jeffrey Farnol's swashbuckling tale of piracy, love and death on a desert island.

Cracktastic!
You too can listen: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/...

From wiki re author - John Jeffery Farnol (10 February 1878 – 9 August 1952), was an English author, known for his many romantic novels, some formulaic and set in the English Regency period, and swashbucklers. He with Georgette Heyer founded the Regency romantic genre; one of his first books, The Broad Highway, has been issued in a version edited by Barbara Cartland.