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Exactly three years ago, I was just beginning to transcribe Dick Perceval’s diaries. I used dictation software and spent the first few...
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The 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...
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Mrs. Rose
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...
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New 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...
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Where 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...
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Neither 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...
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Come 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...
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Copyrights 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...
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Messing 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...
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Sheila (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,...
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A 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...
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Online talk.
Hear stories of obsessive love, heartbreak, wartime service at the famous Bletchley Park code-breaking centre, and one man's search for...
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Berlin 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...
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“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,...
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A letter from Sorina
I have very little understanding of what Sorina Perceval was like, as all of my impressions have been formed through reading Dick's...
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What 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...
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To 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...
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The Perceval Correspondence
Back in 2012, when starting to search for information about Dick Perceval online...
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More about Sorina Perceval.
Born in November 1887, In Breslau, Sorina's given name on her birth record was Gertrud Maria Margarethe Kuchendorrf.
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Who 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...
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