Wonderful London
Anonymous
Read by Peter Yearsley
"Wonderful London, its lights and shadows of humour and sadness". (That's the full title of the book.) A collection of short essays, studded with conversation, on aspects of Victorian London life, seen through the eyes of a middle-class narrator.
NOTES:
1 A "ticket of leave" is a document of parole issued to convicts who can be trusted with a degree of freedom.
2 In Chapter three, a "cornopean" is a reed organ.
3 In Chapter twenty, "negus" is a drink made from port mixed with hot water, citrus fruit, spices and sugar.
(Summary by Peter Yearsley) (14 hr 13 min)
Chapters
| The Ghosts of the London Midnight | 25:21 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| The Ugliest Street in London | 28:00 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| Some Curious Performers | 28:40 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| At a Little Dinner in Tatter-Street | 29:12 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| Saturday Night at The Cat | 28:18 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| Girl Labour in London | 30:49 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| The Stable Side of Mayfair | 27:48 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| Opposite a Cabstand | 21:16 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| A Stroll in Baldwin's Gardens | 18:01 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| London Society in a 'Flat' | 21:48 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| The Foreign Settlement in Soho | 49:32 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| Rooked in the City | 18:07 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| All over London | 17:39 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| Outsiders of society, and their homes in London | 44:42 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| The London 'Rough' | 12:02 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| Lodgers in the Suburbs | 13:44 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| The Londoner's Spring | 25:50 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| London Life and Country Life | 44:34 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| The Last Man in Town | 13:56 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| Picturesque London | 20:20 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| Sketches from an Office Window | 22:24 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| Half an Hour in a Servants' Registry Office | 45:38 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| A shady industry | 12:18 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| The vampire bride | 16:54 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| Jack's delight | 14:33 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| A police-court Morning Performance | 12:45 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| Cockney Cave-dwellers | 12:44 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| Madman's Paradise | 13:21 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| Gaol-birds at Large | 13:44 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| St. Valentine's Shabby Suit | 13:53 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| A Young Vagabond's Vacation | 11:59 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| A Beggar's Confession | 13:21 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| Birds of a Feather | 13:37 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| 'Home-wreckers' | 22:29 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| A Night With Thieves | 13:29 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| The Sunday Rag-fair in the City | 14:56 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| Our Poor Old Horses | 14:01 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| Retired Tradesmen | 13:03 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| The End of "Jack Ketch's Warren" | 14:21 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| A White-glove Day | 7:24 | Read by Peter Yearsley |
| Ladies in the Temple | 17:15 | Read by Peter Yearsley |