Turpin 🎧

It's here. TURPIN is now on Spotify and Audible (+ @bigfinish) Ask two coves to pitch you the thing and this is what you get. Dónal Finn (The Other Bennet Sister, Young Sherlock) is Dick Turpin, with Jemima Rooper. turpinhq.co.uk

"This way. Hurry up." Harry Myers (@PeasOneDay) plays Mason, the thief-taker on Turpin's tail. TURPIN Starring Dónal Finn , out now on Audible, Spotify and @BigFinish. turpinhq.co.uk

"You betray us and we'll skin you alive." Brian Bovell is Sam Gregory, a bit of a baddie. Harry Myers (@PeasOneDay) is Mason, the law on their tail. TURPIN: Essex Pistols, out now on Audible, Spotify and @BigFinish. turpinhq.co.uk

Dónal Finn on Dick Turpin: "There are people out there doing exactly as he's doing all the time. He's just really good and consistent with it." TURPIN: Essex Pistols, out now on Audible, Spotify and @BigFinish. turpinhq.co.uk

Dónal Finn's Turpin can talk his way past most coves. His mum is another matter. Kacey Ainsworth plays Maria Turpin, who runs the boozing ken and won't have him upsetting the punters. TURPIN: Essex Pistols, out now on Audible, Spotify and @BigFinish. turpinhq.co.uk

Dónal Finn, Jemima Rooper and Brian Bovell on the one thing no cove in this story can shake off. The gallows. It hangs over every scene, and not just over Turpin. TURPIN: Essex Pistols, out now on Audible, Spotify and @BigFinish. turpinhq.co.uk

Hanged for a lamb or hanged for a sheep. @PeasOneDay, who plays Mason, on why Turpin went all in: you're condemned the moment you steal, so you might as well take the lot. Starring Dónal Finn, TURPIN out now on Audible, Spotify and @BigFinish. turpinhq.co.uk

October 1728.Thaxted, Essex. Stole two oxen. Got caught. Escaped out a back window. The butcher's apprentice became a thief. Turpin audio drama turpinhq.co.uk @bigfinish #History #OnThisDay #DickTurpin #BritishHistory #HistoryFacts

Dandy highwayman, they say. Our producer Lizzie Worsdell would like a word. Starring Dónal Finn, with Jemima Rooper, Greg Wise, Kacey Ainsworth, Harry Myers and Brian Bovell. TURPIN: Essex Pistols, out now on Audible, Spotify and @BigFinish. turpinhq.co.uk

October 1738. Committed for the cockerel. Told them I was John Palmer, butcher, fallen into debt. They checked. Two Lincolnshire men identified my horses as stolen. The net was tightening. turpinhq.co.uk #History #OnThisDay #DickTurpin #BritishHistory

Dónal Finn: "I'm no bandit, miss. I'm the notorious Turpin." Dónal and Jemima Rooper, in and out of character, at The Soundhouse. TURPIN: Essex Pistols, out now on Audible, Spotify and @BigFinish. turpinhq.co.uk

Jemima Rooper on playing Betty Turpin: next to nothing in the record about her, because the record was written by men about men. Starring Dónal Finn, with Jemima Rooper and Greg Wise. TURPIN: Essex Pistols, out now on Audible, Spotify and @BigFinish. turpinhq.co.uk

October 1734. Woodford. Gregory Gang's first home invasion. Strype's house. This is where it started. No gentleman highwayman. Just violence. Turpin audio drama turpinhq.co.uk @bigfinish #History #OnThisDay #DickTurpin #BritishHistory #HistoryFacts

Two coves, one script, and a great deal of pretending to be prads. Our co-writers Mat and Darren (@rapiersword) on how it got written. TURPIN: Essex Pistols, out now on Audible, Spotify and @BigFinish. turpinhq.co.uk

Every flash cove needs a name that ain't his own. Turpin took his wife's. Her father's money paid for the butcher's shop an' all. Neither was ever seen again. TURPIN, starring Dónal Finn, out now on Audible, Spotify and @BigFinish. turpinhq.co.uk

16 October 1738. Transferred to York Castle - the nubbing ken. Where they sent you before the gallows. Still thought I was John Palmer. Didn't matter. The three-legged mare was waiting. Turpin audio drama turpinhq.co.uk #History #OnThisDay #DickTurpin

No horse. No tavern. No gallows. Just a woman in a booth, having it out with thin air. Kacey Ainsworth spent a morning wrestling a prad that wasn't there. TURPIN: Essex Pistols, out now on Audible, Spotify and @BigFinish. turpinhq.co.uk

Dónal Finn on why audio drama suits a story like this: bold choices, made fast, in a medium that runs on nothing but imagination. Turns out you can rob a coach faster with your voice than with a pistol. TURPIN out now on Audible, Spotify & @bigfinish. turpinhq.co.uk

9 October 1735. Rode through London at noon with Rowden. Porters in Watling Street recognised us. Didn't stop us. £200 on our heads. No fear. Turpin audio drama turpinhq.co.uk #History #OnThisDay #DickTurpin #BritishHistory #HistoryFacts

2 October 1738. Shot my landlord's cockerel. Threatened to shoot the man who complained. Two years hiding as "John Palmer." Undone by a rooster. Turpin audio drama turpinhq.co.uk @bigfinish #History #OnThisDay #DickTurpin #BritishHistory #HistoryFacts