SP`s role in Quelling the Great Fire, his almost single handed re-building of the `Wooden Walls` that surrounded England, ie The Navy, and his virtual founding of the Civil Service etc., are ignored! That this was not to be true to the diary, is the otherwise inexplicable lead casting of Steve Coogan. Supplementary volume : Pepysiana or, Additional notes on the particulars of Pepyss life and on some passages in the diary, with appendixes Notes. `Today` his foibles made for cheap TV, no big sets, just a camera dwelling lasciviously on lots of nudity, sensuous seemingly unrelated body movements, `heavy breathing`, `Colonel Parker` style kinky `open view` sex scenes in `Hyde Park`, funny clothes, funny wigs for both sexes and SP digging a hole to protect his illgotten gains, not against the Fire, but the Militia! Vol.10 has title The diary of Samuel Pepys. For the next ten years he faithfully recorded the days events and confessed his innermost thoughts.

Thus programme makers, concentrate on exploiting characters foibles, NOT strengths. Kris Marshall and Katherine Jakeways star as Mr & Mrs Pepys in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of the world famous diaries.

Samuel Pepys was 26 when he decided to start keeping a diary, in January 1660.

This collection comprises all 10 radio series plus a special Saturday Drama centring on the Great Fire of London.BBC 2`s version of Charles II, indicated TV`s thirst for big audiences means appealing to the common denominator, colloquially `dumbing down`. PeterSallis DouglasWilmer PaulEddington etc. In this major BBC Radio dramatisation of the journals, the sights and sounds of his world are vividly conjured. Another lost gem: The Diary of Samuel Pepys BBC 1958 Almost forgotten today & wiped. Over 350 years may have passed since Pepys first put pen to paper, but the man and his preoccupations feel surprisingly familiar. Length Abridged Author Samuel Pepys Narrator 1 BBC Full Cast Dramatisation.

He described London – the frozen river Thames, the rising crime rate and the poverty – and recorded the details of his own life: his wife, rivals, lovers and friends, his work for the Navy, his drinking and social life. Genre - Main Non-Fiction Genre - Specific Autobiography Duration 360 mins. He also told us what people ate and wore, what they did for fun, the tricks they played on each other, what they expected of marriage, and even how they conducted love affairs. Pepys gave us eyewitness accounts of some of the great events of the 17th century, including the Great Fire of London and the Second Dutch War. That diary has since become one of our most important, and fascinating, historical documents.

For the next 10 years he faithfully recorded the day’s events and confessed his innermost thoughts. Samuel Pepys was 26 when he decided to start keeping a diary, in January 1660. Kris Marshall and Katherine Jakeways star as Mr & Mrs Pepys in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of the world famous diaries.

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