Original version

BBC Radio 4 Extra

Your digital radio entertainment station showcasing the best in comedy and drama

Your digital radio entertainment station showcasing the best in comedy and drama. With recent favourites from BBC Radio 4.

Book of the Week

Audiobooks

Factual

Serialised book readings, featuring works from various genres

Serialised book readings, featuring works of non-fiction, biography, autobiography, travel, diaries, essays, humour and history

BBC Radio 4 FM

BBC Radio 4 LW

Book of the Week: Autobiography of Mark Twain

Book of the Week: Autobiography of Mark Twain: Episode 3

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

Factual: Life Stories

Autobiography of Mark Twain

Episode 3

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Autobiography of Mark Twain, Episode 3

Mark Twain recounts the fashion for duelling in 1870s Nevada.

Samuel Clemens, a 29-year-old Nevada newspaper reporter, alias Mark Twain, recalls duelling in 1864. Read by Kerry Shale.

Read by Kerry Shale. In Nevada in 1864 there was a sudden fashion for duelling. At the time Samuel L. Clemens, better known now as Mark Twain, was City Editor on the Virginia City Enterprise. He was just 29 years-old and though ambitious, he claims he had no desire to fight a duel, even for the honour of his paper. But somehow, in spite of his intentions, he managed to provoke the proprietor of the rival Virginia Union.

Abridged by Jane Marshall Productions

Producer: Jane Marshall
A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4.

BBC Radio 4

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

...Twain. Kerry Shale reads from Mark Twain's autobiography

Kerry Shale reads from Mark Twain's autobiography, which he forbade to be published until 100 years after his death.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Book of the Week

Autobiography of Mark Twain

Episode 3

Genres

Formats

Brand

Series

BBC Radio 4 Extra

About BBC Radio 4 Extra