Becky EdmundsDec 29, 20203 minThat's all folks! For now...Exactly three years ago, I was just beginning to transcribe Dick Perceval’s diaries. I used dictation software and spent the first few...
Becky EdmundsDec 14, 20204 minThe search for evidence.When Dick Perceval’s journals were found in 1998, there was no easy way to find out more about him. I had no access to the internet at...
Becky Edmunds3 minThat's all folks! For now...Exactly three years ago, I was just beginning to transcribe Dick Perceval’s diaries. I used dictation software and spent the first few...
Becky Edmunds4 minThe search for evidence.When Dick Perceval’s journals were found in 1998, there was no easy way to find out more about him. I had no access to the internet at...
Becky Edmunds4 minMrs. RoseIn Episode 24, we are introduced to Sorina’s friend Mrs Rose – the first of her friends that Dick has met, despite having known Sorina...
Becky Edmunds6 minNew love.“I would give my soul to find a new love, yet in all these years there has been no one else possible… Those whom I have loved and longed...
Becky Edmunds5 minWhere did all the money go?Dick Perceval came from a family that was extremely privileged and wealthy, and who had been so for many generations. and yet, all...
Becky Edmunds4 minNeither a failure nor a success.For many years, the only evidence that I had for Dick Perceval's life was contained in his journals, but, in July 2018, project producer...
Becky Edmunds1 minCome on a virtual journey!For this blog entry, I thought I would take you on a journey through some of the places that Dick Perceval lived and worked. And since Ms...
Becky Edmunds8 minCopyrights and wrongs.The blog entry that I had planned to accompany Episode 17 cannot be published yet, as I am awaiting copyright clearance and permissions...
Becky Edmunds2 minMessing about with ectoplasm.Dick's experience with Miss Manning (episode 17) did not put him off spiritualism. He had always been searching for some kind of belief...
Becky Edmunds5 minSheila (and the Wolf).After Sorina’s death in 1960, Dick stops writing in his journal for a few years. When he starts again in 1964, he has married Sheila,...
Becky Edmunds7 minA ghastly thing.In the making of this series, I have to make some difficult decisions about which episodes not to make. They are decisions based on time...
Becky Edmunds1 minOnline talk.Hear stories of obsessive love, heartbreak, wartime service at the famous Bletchley Park code-breaking centre, and one man's search for...
Becky Edmunds7 minBerlin 1925. Dick Perceval and the Weimar Republic.Dick Perceval left Charterhouse School in 1925, aged 16. In his diary, he notes that there is a new scholarship for languages at Oxford...
Becky Edmunds7 min“It would be a form of suicide”. Many people ask me what Dick Perceval would have thought about his journals being made public in this way. I have no way of knowing,...
Becky Edmunds3 minA letter from SorinaI have very little understanding of what Sorina Perceval was like, as all of my impressions have been formed through reading Dick's...
Becky Edmunds3 minWhat happened in Singapore?In Episode 5 of To Be Continued, reflecting on his relationship with Sorina following her death, Dick writes, “I had thought that those...
Becky Edmunds3 minTo write something worthwhile...The first mention in the journals of Dick’s desire to become an author is in 1927, when he was 17 years old, living in Berlin, as a...
Becky Edmunds1 minThe Perceval CorrespondenceBack in 2012, when starting to search for information about Dick Perceval online...
Becky Edmunds3 minMore about Sorina Perceval.Born in November 1887, In Breslau, Sorina's given name on her birth record was Gertrud Maria Margarethe Kuchendorrf.
Becky Edmunds2 minWho was Dick Perceval?Dick, or John Richard Perceval, to give him his full name, was born in 1909 to a wealthy family, who lived in a house called The Grange...
Becky Edmunds3 minThat's all folks! For now...Exactly three years ago, I was just beginning to transcribe Dick Perceval’s diaries. I used dictation software and spent the first few...
Becky Edmunds4 minThe search for evidence.When Dick Perceval’s journals were found in 1998, there was no easy way to find out more about him. I had no access to the internet at...