People of Britain Stand By Your Wireless Monday Morning – Midnight in Peking is BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week (all week!)
Posted: May 27th, 2012 | No Comments »Here’s the details and, if you’re in the UK or listening live online it’s every morning – I think afterwards you’ll be able to listen online at the BBC Radio Listen Again pages or at the Book of the Week site
Book Of The Week: Midnight In Peking
Ep 1/5
Monday 28 May
9.45-10.00am
(and then every morning same time all week concluding Friday)
BBC RADIO 4
Author Paul French reveals the details of a scandalous murder mystery which haunted the last days of Old Peking. The reader is Crawford Logan.
On a frozen night in January 1937, in the dying days of colonial Peking, the body of a young woman was found in the shadows of a haunted watchtower. It was Pamela Werner, the daughter of the city’s former British consul Edward Werner.
A horrified world followed the hunt for Pamela’s killer but the police investigation drew a blank and the case was forgotten amid the carnage of the Japanese invasion.
Seventy-five years later, deep in the Scotland Yard archives, British historian Paul French accidentally came across the lost case file prepared by Edward Werner and, through his fresh eyes, uncovered the killer’s identity.
An evocative account of the end of an era, the book spent seven weeks in the South China Morning Post’s Top 10 bestsellers list.
Abridged by Robin Brooks.
Producer/Kirsteen Cameron for the BBC
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
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