First broadcast on 29 December 2024 and now on BBC Sounds. Click for details
THE SULTAN’S ORGAN
The diary of Thomas Dallam. Finally published 400 years late! Translated into modern English, it reads as if its Elizabethan author were alive today. In 1598 merchants of the City of London paid for a present to be given by Queen Elizabeth to Sultan Mehmet III of Turkey. She hoped to turn the Sultan’s military might on her Spanish enemies. The merchants hoped to secure trading concessions. Read more…
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While you’re here take a look at some other books set in the Aegean:
Ruins, retsina, a mad dog and an Englishman – life in a Greek village.
Through Greece to monastic Mount Athos on a clapped out motorbike
The diary of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem by a medieval Italian and his epic return
Four eighteenth century Tourists on a Greek island defy the Sultan. A novel
Or how about these:
Three different stories with one thing in common – the supranatural. A vampire, a zombie and the Devil incarnate
Hunted street kids, child slavery, and an explorer lost in the Frozen North. The Christmas message with no added syrup.