Samuel Pepys - After the Fire (Audio book) - BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

Samuel Pepys was born on 23 February 1633, the son of a London tailor. He graduated from Cambridge in 1654, and in 1655 he married Elizabeth St Michel. He started work for Sir Edward Montague, a relation who later became the 1st Earl of Sandwich, and through him first went to sea. Pepys later found work with the Navy Office, eventually rising to become Secretary of the Admiralty. He also became a JP, an MP and a Fellow of the Royal Society. In later life he was accused of being part of the anti-monarchist 'Popish Plot', and was twice imprisoned for it. Upon his second release he retired to Clapham, then considered to be 'in the country'. Samuel Pepys died on 26 May 1703. His diaries, which had been written in code, were bequeathed to Magdalen College, Cambridge, where they can still be viewed.

Product details

• Authors: Hattie Naylor, Samuel Pepys
• Assisted by: Full Cast (Reader / Narrator), Katherine Jakeways (Reader / Narrator), Kris Marshall (Reader / Narrator)
• Publisher: BBC Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: CD-Audio
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9781785293290
• ISBN: 978-1-78529-329-0
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 143 mm x 7 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous