A Programme of Letters on State and Family occasions
Compiled from the writings of Kings and Queens to their Consorts, their Children, their Servants, their Ministers, and their Friends
Speakers:
Marda Vanne
Lilian Harrison
Cecil Trouncer
Harold Reese
Hermione Hannen
Arthur Fayne
Robert Holland
Atholl Fleming
Letters pathetic, letters amusing, letters ceremonial, letters intimate—surviving through the centuries. They have been found in this collection and the other, most of the research having been done by Ivor Vinogradov, an authority on matters of history, who gave two broadcast talks last year. Few who listen can fail to feel the irony of a letter of devotion from Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, or the pathos of one of terror from her to him when, two years later, she was a 'doleful prisoner in the Tower'.