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Originally broadcast nationwide in 1993, this meticulously researched five-part historical radio drama has been published to commemorate Benjamin Franklin’s 300th birthday. It reveals the multi-faceted, 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, started out his Autobiography and became America’s most famous citizen. As tensions heated up between your Mother Country and her colonies, Franklin became embroiled in intrigue, espionage and even a duel. The British government believed him "the top of all 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.
