Exactly three years ago, I was just beginning to transcribe Dick Perceval’s diaries. I used dictation software and spent the first few...

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...

In Episode 24, we are introduced to Sorina’s friend Mrs Rose – the first of her friends that Dick has met, despite having known Sorina...

“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...

Dick Perceval came from a family that was extremely privileged and wealthy, and who had been so for many generations. and yet, all...

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...

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...

The blog entry that I had planned to accompany Episode 17 cannot be published yet, as I am awaiting copyright clearance and permissions...

Dick's experience with Miss Manning (episode 17) did not put him off spiritualism. He had always been searching for some kind of belief...

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,...

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...

Hear stories of obsessive love, heartbreak, wartime service at the famous Bletchley Park code-breaking centre, and one man's search for...

Dick Perceval left Charterhouse School in 1925, aged 16. In his diary, he notes that there is a new scholarship for languages at Oxford...

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,...

I have very little understanding of what Sorina Perceval was like, as all of my impressions have been formed through reading Dick's...

In Episode 5 of To Be Continued, reflecting on his relationship with Sorina following her death, Dick writes, “I had thought that those...

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...

Back in 2012, when starting to search for information about Dick Perceval online...

Born in November 1887, In Breslau, Sorina's given name on her birth record was Gertrud Maria Margarethe Kuchendorrf.

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...