The Oaken Heart
Margery Allingham
Margery Allingham, already a successful crime writer, was living quietly in the Essex village of Tolleshunt D’Arcy (‘Auburn’) when the Second World War broke out. Her house became an Air Raid Wardens’ post and a First Aid centre, and Allingham herself became responsible for 275 East London evacuees in a rural community of just over 600. Commissioned by American publishing friends to recount what life was like, she began The Oaken Heart in the autumn of 1940, when the Battle of Britain gave way to the London Blitz. Bombs fell, even on the Essex countryside, and a German invasion was fully expected. She conceived her work as an honest letter to America. Places were given fictional names but otherwise she told it like it was, whether funny or painful.
Unsentimental yet personal and rich in detail, this is an evocative first-hand account of day-to-day realities in a small community upended and terrified of the future – like so many villages of the time.
Duration - 9h 24m.
Author - Margery Allingham.
Narrator - Georgina Sutton.
Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.
Location:
United States
Description:
Margery Allingham, already a successful crime writer, was living quietly in the Essex village of Tolleshunt D’Arcy (‘Auburn’) when the Second World War broke out. Her house became an Air Raid Wardens’ post and a First Aid centre, and Allingham herself became responsible for 275 East London evacuees in a rural community of just over 600. Commissioned by American publishing friends to recount what life was like, she began The Oaken Heart in the autumn of 1940, when the Battle of Britain gave way to the London Blitz. Bombs fell, even on the Essex countryside, and a German invasion was fully expected. She conceived her work as an honest letter to America. Places were given fictional names but otherwise she told it like it was, whether funny or painful. Unsentimental yet personal and rich in detail, this is an evocative first-hand account of day-to-day realities in a small community upended and terrified of the future – like so many villages of the time. Duration - 9h 24m. Author - Margery Allingham. Narrator - Georgina Sutton. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:04:45
Chapter 1
Duration:00:38:53
Chapter 2
Duration:00:10:06
Chapter 3
Duration:00:43:45
Chapter 4
Duration:00:09:09
Chapter 5
Duration:00:14:36
Chapter 6
Duration:00:18:15
Chapter 7
Duration:00:08:44
Chapter 8
Duration:00:14:37
Chapter 9
Duration:00:43:34
Chapter 10
Duration:00:19:27
Chapter 11
Duration:00:24:47
Chapter 12
Duration:00:15:00
Chapter 13
Duration:00:18:05
Chapter 14
Duration:00:19:15
Chapter 15
Duration:00:28:38
Chapter 16
Duration:00:15:25
Chapter 17
Duration:00:15:08
Chapter 18
Duration:00:16:24
Chapter 19
Duration:00:31:18
Chapter 20
Duration:00:25:50
Chapter 21
Duration:00:15:19
Chapter 22
Duration:00:10:24
Chapter 23
Duration:00:11:12
Chapter 24
Duration:00:16:02
Chapter 25
Duration:00:22:49
Chapter 26
Duration:00:28:46
Chapter 27
Duration:00:24:07