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July 1540: the shocking news of Cromwell's fall reaches the court of Margaret of Navarre, sister of Francis I of France and arguably the most cultured woman north of the Alps. She sends her courtier and poet, Nicolas Bourbon, an avid reformer with many friends in English court circles, to find out what is happening. What Bourbon discovers from members of Cromwell's family, his proteges and his enemies sets him on what becomes a hazardous quest for the real man behind all the competing versions on offer.

Der Roman erzählt eindrucksvoll die Lebensgeschichte von Furkan F., einem Mann, der schon in jungen Jahren mit zahlreichen Herausforderungen konfrontiert wird. Trotz aller Rückschläge verliert Furkan nie seine Träume aus den Augen. Mit der Zeit entwickelt er neue Lebensziele – allen voran den Wunsch, Schriftsteller zu werden. Der Roman endet hoffnungsvoll: Ein gereifter Furkan blickt seiner Pension mit Freude entgegen – bereit, sich dem Schreiben zu widmen, neue Reisen anzutreten und sich mit Menschen zu umgeben, die das Leben einfach und ehrlich gestalten.

In diesem Werk wird dem Hörer die Weltsicht des Herrn F. nahe gebracht. Dabei verbindet Autor Armin Peter Faust die kritische Weltsicht eines engagierten Humanisten mit einigen autobiografischen Erlebnisbildern eines Herrn F. mit ironischem Unterton. Da ihn die normative Kraft des Faktischen meist eher verwirrt als überzeugt, versucht er wieder und wieder - ganz in existentialistischer Tradition - der Wahrheit zum Durchbruch zu verhelfen. Doch selbst wenn dies scheitert, so bleibt immer noch der selbstkritische Humor, mit der Herr F.s Stimme verbunden ist.

For most of his 76 years, Bill Smith preferred solitude over socialising, horses over people and confidentiality over confidantes. As a jockey, he was known for always turning up already fully kitted out in his silks. But now, in his advancing years, a fall lands him in full-time care and it becomes impossible to maintain his privacy. Nurse Maureen Bannon resents having to look after ‘the geries', especially grumpy old buggers like Mr Smith, but when she discovers Bill's secret an unlikely alliance is formed. Bill was assigned female at birth.

Alice had not expected to spend most of the twenty-first century writing about Leonard Woolf. When she stood on Morell Bridge watching fireworks explode from the rooftops of Melbourne at the start of a new millennium, she had only two thoughts. One was: the fireworks are better in Sydney. The other was: is Y2K going to be a thing? Y2K was not a thing. But there were worse disasters to come: Environmental collapse. The return of fascism. Wars. A sexual reckoning. A plague.

A Play written for radio. Running time for radio about 45 minutes. A mother and daughter make a railway journey to visit The Great Exhibition of London in 1851. A fictional play with narrative from the original diary of Elizabeth Briggs and her mother Christina who made the 12 hour journey by train from Burton-in-Kendal to London in 1851 to visit The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations. The Social History of early Victorian Britain related through imagined conversations and the actual written words of the diary.