"What brings this to life is a soundtrack that mixes noise, music, narrative,
snatches of dialogue, and other effects to conjure up a panorama of London life in your mind
that no amount of visual detailing on TV could have achieved."Christian Science Monitor

"Craven Street is a moving, informative and beautifully produced radio play festooned with
music and sounds of the time."AudioFile

Originally broadcast nationwide in 1993, this meticulously researched five-part historical radio drama
is being published to commemorate Benjamin Franklin's three-hundredth birthday. It reveals the
multifaceted, complex Franklin's little known adventures in London before the Revolution. For fifteen
years, he lived on Craven Street off the Thames, where he established a surrogate family, began his
autobiography, and became America's most famous citizen. As tensions heated up between the
Mother Country and her colonies, Franklin became embroiled in intrigue, espionage, and even a duel.
The British government believed him "the head of all the rebels" and set out to have him hanged. He
escaped only hours before arresting magistrates came banging on his door. He was at sea sailing for
home when "the shot heard 'round the world" rang out at Lexington.