It is the year of the Hangman, 1777, and Captain Isaac Biddlecomb, with his wife and newborn son aboard,
drives the Continental brig of war Charlemagne as she races along the New Jersey coast. Bound away for
Philadelphia, Biddlecomb has orders to take command of the newly built, twenty-eight-gun frigate Falmouth
and get her to sea before she is taken by General Howe's invading army. Unfortunately, the entire British
fleet stands between him and the capital city. Locked in battle on a lee shore, Biddlecomb is forced to
run his beloved Charlemagne ashore - only to come face-to-face with his enemy Lt. John Smeaton, a man to
whom he owes a debt of blood

About The Reader
Peter Wickham was bitten early by the travel bug, coming to England from New Zealand as a child. He has
worked all over England and Wales in repertory and is determined to work more in Scotland! Acting and
directing aboard the Q.E.II took him from Singapore to Venezuela, and a short season in Istanbul followed.
In 1990 he directed and appeared in a revue on a tour of Czechoslovakia. Many TV appearances started in
Dixon of Dock Green (during its later years!) and include most recently A Sense of Guilt. But after theatre
his favourite medium is sound; he has been heard many, many times on radio, in plays, reading poetry, short
stories and serials.

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