More (0 reviews) Review Book 3 Night Birds On Nantucket Shipwrecked Dido Twite, picked up by a whaling ship, finds herself many miles from home and facing deep troubles.

But she seemed to have locked the door behind her and, as he. To save the King from Hanoverian plotters Simon and Sophie must first suffer shipwreck, attacks by wolves and a narrow escape from an exploding castle, in a hot air balloon.īroadcasts: BBC Radio 4, 14:15, Thu 24 Dec.2009. Black Hearts in Battersea 'Simon paid off the driver and turned to follow Mrs Twite. Young Simon comes to 18th century London to study painting - and finds himself caught up in wicked Hanoverian plots to overthrow the King.īroadcasts: BBC Radio 4, 14:15 Wed 23 Dec.2009. Starring Joe Dempsie as Simon, Nicola Miles-Wilden as Dido, and Emerald O'Hanrahan as Sophie.

Cast list Ī BBC Radio dramatisation by Lin Coghlan, directed by Marc Beeby, of Joan Aiken's classic children's adventure. In a time and place where villains do nothing halfway, Simon is faced with wild wolves, poisoned pies, kidnapping, and a wrecked ship. In 1995, the book was adapted by James Andrew Hall into a television series by James Andrew Hall, airing on BBC1 from 31 December 1995 to 11 February 1996. Aiken was inspired to create an atmosphere of important events having already transpired offstage (which was helped by the fact that a great deal of the beginning had to be left out due to length), and also included an involved ' Dickensian plot' which she believed to complement the habit many children have of rereading or having a book reread to them. The book is set in a slightly altered historical England-during the reign of King James III-in the early 19th century, and follows the adventures of Simon, an orphan whose plans to study painting in London are derailed by high adventure. The second book in the Wolves Chronicles, it is loosely a sequel to her earlier Wolves of Willoughby Chase. Black Hearts in Battersea is a children's novel by Joan Aiken first published in 1964.

Black Hearts in Battersea by Joan Aiken