Stories

I have long forgotten who passed on to me the erudite  advice that, “One should never despair  as long as you have credit with your  tailor.” But I was  reminded  of this facetious statement recently when a  then budding – now successful – American author I made this to some thirty years ago, contacted me via this website .

In the second week of February 1949, three men were charged with provoking the death of more ten people in Ecuador. The method of their crime: creating a radio play based on H.G. Wells and then letting it loose on an unsuspecting public.
It was an incident far more sinister than the panics that followed the 1938 broadcast in America when Orson Welles had first dramatised H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds on radio. Not even the effect of a similar 1944 radio broadcast in Chile could compare when it came to the number of deaths and the level of devastation.

Julia Bradbury takes her boots and backpack to the Continent to explore the landscape of Germany and the cultural movement that made it famous - Romanticism.

Wed 24 August 1982
We arrive at El Tambo, a halfway house which could have been straight out of a bad western film. Probably the prostitutes had warned them of our impending approach as, despite being accompanied by M and J, our arrival was not greeted with any friendliness. – Learn from Juan that there is great rivalry between the miners and their many groups and cooperatives and this leads often leads to violence.- We hoped to rent a mule to carry our packs but despite the half dozen tied to a rail outside the house, none were available to us.