Becky EdmundsThat'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 EdmundsThe 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 EdmundsMrs. 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 EdmundsNew 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 EdmundsWhere 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 EdmundsNeither 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 EdmundsCome 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 EdmundsCopyrights 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 EdmundsMessing 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 EdmundsSheila (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 EdmundsA 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 EdmundsOnline talk.Hear stories of obsessive love, heartbreak, wartime service at the famous Bletchley Park code-breaking centre, and one man's search for...
Becky EdmundsBerlin 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 Edmunds“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 EdmundsA 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 EdmundsWhat 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 EdmundsTo 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 EdmundsThe Perceval CorrespondenceBack in 2012, when starting to search for information about Dick Perceval online...
Becky EdmundsMore about Sorina Perceval.Born in November 1887, In Breslau, Sorina's given name on her birth record was Gertrud Maria Margarethe Kuchendorrf.
Becky EdmundsWho 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...