Here's a date for your diary - but sadly only if you are in the UK. Tomorrow night, the 29th, watch out for star audio book performer Emilia Fox in Channel Four's new series The Queen. In five episodes, the series chronicles 50 years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

Emilia opens the series portraying the Queen in 1955 with a look at the first scandal experienced by the fledgling monarch, when it was revealed that her sister Margaret had fallen in love with an older, divorced royal employee, Group Captain Peter Townsend.

Emilia says that she followed the celebrated actress Helen Mirren's advice, which was to 'try and capture an essence of her rather than do an exact imitation'.
I think we are in for a treat!

Another side of Emilia's acting talent can ge heard in her exclusive Silksoundbooks audio book, The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems. Written by Alexander Pope, who is considered by many to be the greatest poet of the eighteenth century, the poem satirises a petty squabble over the theft of a lock of hair as recounted to Pope by a friend. This is a mock-heroic narrative, parodying the gods and goddesses of the epic style and although comic at times, Pope never loses sight of the fragile nature of beauty.

A must for all poetry lovers - and only at silksoundbooks.com !

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