Craven Street
Ben Franklin in London

Winner of AudioFile magazines Earphones Award. This meticulously researched fivepart historical radio drama reveals the multifaceted, complex Franklins 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 Americas most famous citizen. As tensions heated up between the Mother Country and her colonies, Franklin became embroiled in intrigue and espionage and almost got hanged by the British government.