Cheating the Gallows | Israel Zangwill | A Bitesized Audio Production
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Tom Peters and Everard G. Roxdal are an oddly-matched couple sharing rooms in London. They couldn't be more different, yet they are firm friends. But things become complicated when Everard's fiancée meets Tom, and a criminal conspiracy changes all their lives for ever...
A new, original recording of a classic public domain text, read and performed by Simon Stanhope for Bitesized Audio.
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Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) was a journalist, playwright, poet and novelist, who earned the nickname "the Dickens of the Ghetto" for his powerful writing and political activism. He was born in London, the elder son of Moses Zangwill and his wife Ellen Hannah Marks Zangwill, immigrants from the Russian empire; his younger brother Lewis Zangwill also became a well-known novelist. Israel Zangwill was educated initially in Plymouth and Bristol before moving to the Jews' Free School in London at the age of nine. He later became a teacher and graduated from the University of London in 1884, but eventually gave up teaching to work as a journalist. As a writer he is perhaps best remembered today for his play 'The Melting Pot', depicting the lives of immigrants to America which was a huge success in the United States in 1909. Former President Theodore Roosevelt was apparently very impressed by the performance he attended, and subsequently corresponded with Zangwill. Other notable works include 'The Big Bow Mystery' (1892), one of the earliest "locked room mysteries" in fiction. Zangwill was politically active, supporting various causes including women's suffrage and pacifism, and promoted the idea of moving beyond ethnicities to combine into a new nation, as depicted in 'The Melting Pot'. He married the author and activist Edith Ayrton; they had two sons, the younger of whom, Oliver Zangwill, became a prominent psychologist in the 20th century. Israel Zangwill died in Sussex in August 1926, aged 62.
'Cheating the Gallows' first appeared in 'The Idler' in February 1893.
Recording © Bitesized Audio 2021.
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Liked the bit where she 'woke in a cold perspiration'' - no sweat for this girl, only horses sweat in Victorian times. Thanks RUclips and Simon.
Horses sweat, men perspire but women merely glow......l think you meant this quote but l cant recall who said it.
@David White I've heard that saying, too, but a little differently. It was, "Horses sweat, men perspire and ladies glow." I don't know where it originated either, but ever since I first heard it, I've joked that I sweat like a horse!😂
Mind blown 🤯
Another well told, little know story. Thank you.
Totally absorbing. (Wasn’t expecting that ending! ) Delivered with perfection and eloquence as only YOU can do, Simon. Bless you. 💖
Very kind of you to say so, thank you Rachel! Best wishes, I hope you're keeping well
Bitesized Audio Classics, so good to hear from you, Simon! Been missing you! Hope you had a great vacation...Yes, we are all well...🐭🐶🙀
One of my favorites. Listening to the stories over and over again is pure pleasure.
What an unexpected ending! Brilliant😵
I'm just going to upvote this before listening to this, because there isn't a single video on this channel that isn't exceptional.
That was fantastic Simon. I wasn't expecting that ending.😲
As I began to listen I kept envisioning Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon in the title roles.😆 Thanks again Simon.
I was thinking Simon my favourite narrator for example of so many M.R.James ghost stories was always the wonderful Michael Horden. Now we have another wonderful narrator. Simon Stanhope Carol
What an excellent story! I enjoyed it greatly!!
What an amazingly wild, complex story! Thank you for the introduction to Zangwill as mystery writer, so well narrated!
I thoroughly enjoy all the stories I have indulged in, on the channel. How ever, this is definitely one of my favorites, thus far. Thank you.
I am enjoying your readings so much I have to go back and listen to them 3 or more times…Thank you for such wonderful entertainment
Always excellent-thank you, Simon!
Wonderful, surprising. well written story. Never saw that ending coming! A great writer and story, well read, as always !! Thank you!
Fantastic AGAIN 👏👏👏
What a shocking ending! Thank you for bringing this unique story to us in your usually excellent way, Simon.
Excellent reading! Thank you!
Another brilliànt story saved fom oblivion. Great stuff Simon
He's a brilliant narrator. He's been with us all through Covid. Personally, I hope he's making a good income from it. Some people think you just grab a book, start reading, and hey-ho! The reality is, that there's a LOT of research, reading, and re-reading, editing...etc, etc. And after ALL of that, it really doesn't matter too much, if you haven't got a voice that merits all that work. Luckily for all of us, he does. And let's not forget the fact that he has (re)introduced us to some absolute gems, and some great writers.
Excellent point made.👌 We are very fortunate for this, what I call, absolute treat.
Have heard this before, but not told nearly so well!
In fact this version was so good it took me a while to realise that I knew the story.
Still an excellent story to join this unique collection.
Ps Have a wonderful holiday😁.
Excellent, thank you!
Wow, what a great story! I immediately got The Big Bow Mystery as a free ebook. I had only known Zangwill through his wife’s excellent book The Call about a woman scientist turned suffragette. Obviously a talented family. Thank you.
I've listened to them all... So far. This one has to be the best!
Thank you. Interesting choice! This one has attracted a lower audience than many other stories, perhaps it's because it's a tricky one to categorise, but I do like it
Either I'm psychic or you are, Simon. I took one look at the first sentence of the description & thought "I remember seeing the play 'Cox & Box' done by the local Gilbert & Sullivan players." This was a great surprise ending, & I laughed that penal servitude was deemed worse than hanging.
You've never been in jail. LOL
A really, cracking, clever tale-superbly delivered!
A very interesting story.
I hope you are enjoying your break as much as I enjoyed listening to you read this story Stay safe RNK
And she got herself to a nunnery.
Fantastic!! I never saw that coming. Thank you ❤️
My dear Simon thank you. As mentioned before you are soothing me through a terrible time x
I'm glad to help. Best wishes to you
Another great story and your narration is just perfect
Thank you
Thanks
Did NOT see that coming! Wonderful tale!
Very entertaining, elegant presentation. Thank you!
Excellent. Polly deserves her own series. Lloyd George hit on girls like her for forty years.
If Polly had a series I think it would be X-rated Peter. LOL!
Love... Thank you!
Definitely was not expecting that ending! I thought the ending would be something like he had been spirited away and murdered by a phantom ect, but the real ending was much better!
Loved the final twist, well narrated as ever
Thanks Irena
Very good twist in the end!
Love it! Not familiar with box n cox, but didn't lessen the fun. A great one to go back for a second helping... Will do tomorrow night! Thank you for a brilliant telling!
Lovely selection and excellent reading
Thank you
Wonderful! I didn't see that surprise ending coming at all. Thank you Simon!
👍👍👍👍👍good one...well presented & have a safe holiday *Mr. Simon Stanhope*
Great story, it flows well, and I was totally caught out by that ending! Thanks once again
Loved this, thankyou!
Totally took me by surprise!
Thank you❤
Brilliant twist at the end! I never suspected it!
Fabelhaft, wie immer, lieber Simon. I do so love a tale of firm friends. ❤
Very good & an intriguing ending, thank-you xxx
I suspected the secret from the off - must've become suspicious in me old age! - and yet the ending was still an enjoyable series of twists and turns. Jolly good story, read wonderfully as ever.
That was brilliant!
Loved it! What a twist in the tail😀
Thank you! 😊
I actually suspected the solution early on but dismissed it as too far-fetched!
WOW! What a great ending! I didn't expect that at all.
Wow! That was a good one!
Thanks Kimberly, glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent reading..and what a plot twist!
Wonderful story. Poor unhappy Clara.
What a cool ending!!!! Ha! Very well written and excellently read.
Thank you for sharing.
The story went on and on and on and on and on.
Well, I never saw that one coming!😊
never suspected a thing. very good writer. i wonder if there are any other stories of his? brilliant reading, of course :) 🌷
Yippee!
Clever!
“Only in books”
Only in books are ppl so fickle lol
Wonderful narration
Well I can honestly say I never saw that comming
Scrupulosity? Interesting. Choice of words make the writing. Men are such cads. He woos Polly just after Clara leaves. I love the reading as always. Thank you Simon. He didn't cheat the gallows. He was hung. Okay.
Oh my gosh …. I was very surprised - had me going all the way thinking Tom was a proper rotter murderer - that’ll teach me for being smug & thinking I solved the case hahaha 💫
Heh, isn't this written by the same guy who coined, or at least popularized, the quote about America being a "melting pot?"
Well remembered! It tells us about it in the description !🇬🇧
At the very onset, I had an impression of jenkyl and Hyde persona. They were too different and at the same time too many coincidences like the same words used to Polly. His initial intention was to commit robbery. I don't know whether he deserved death for it.
The Odd Couple.
An Excellent Tale; it would have made a Cracker Jack of an episode for the old Alfred Hitchcock [hour long] TV Series, Hitchcock's style and wry, Ironic twists to a tale would have only enhanced the chagrin of Its ending. Also, a good reading, Thank you.
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I knew it! Well, that or the little flat was a four-way love-in, and I don't think even a bank manager could get away wth that in 188_ ...poor devil.
I see you've been working your way through the back catalogue today. Thank you!
Entertaining but very silly, l,d have twigged it straight away ,l,m generally very suspicious of people. Zangwill appeared as a character in some detective novels from this time but l cant recall the names of the main characters and they,ve disaappeared fromYou Tube. Besides writing, Zangwill was a Jewish activist and Zionist living in London. There is a Zangwill Road on the outskirts of London and l wondered if it might have named after him.
Yes, I think that's quite likely, I don't think it's a very common name, and the only other famous Zangwills (that I know of) are relations of his... his son, and brother
Peter Sellers or Tom Peters ? Disguise diebaclle
Lovely narration + excellent story. Thanks so much. Hi from Oz 👇💜🙃
Wgat aturn! Great story & entertaining narration :-)
Thank you Jacqueline, glad to know you enjoyed it