Richard Wilson

'Richard Wilson is like the naughty kid poking the ant's nest with a stick.' Times Online Kids these days are all fat, lazy and thick and their parents don't know how to bring them up properly any more. They're glued to their phones, play too many violent computer games, communicate only in text-speak and as a result have no imagination or any 'proper' old-fashioned fun like we did when we were children. But is that really true? Were conkers, hopscotch...

The exploration ship found them in a hollow under the asteroid's surface. It was like a dungeon, completely bare-except for a few words that glowed on a wall. And the words were in English!

Four Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction. Featured here: "The Big Fix", "The Man From Siykul", "Course of Empire", and "Travelling Companion Wanted" all by Richard Wilson.

"Behold," he said. "Something Columbus couldn't find. The edge of the world." For its time, published in 1960, innovative science fiction. The town of Superior Ohio one day simply lifts up off the earth and rises to about 10,000 feet and then higher. The book follows a couple residents of the odd town, whose major industries are a bubble gum factory and an odd "school." (Goodreads)

The ghost of the young woman in Elizabethan dress first appeared to me in the library of the big house that so recently had belonged to my parents. At first I thought it was my mother come back to the home she and my father had made for each other and where they lived happily for so many years. But there could be no reason for the ghost of my mother to wear a period costume. It might have been more appropriate for her to wear the short skirt and bobbed...

Richard Wilson (1920-1987) was a Nebula Award winning American science fiction writer and fan. He was a member of the Futurians, and was at his most prolific in the 1950s -- though he continued writing throughout his entire life. This volume focuses on his science fiction (24 stories) from the 1950s, but also includes a "non fiction" ghost story and a brief autobiography written in the 1980s. Included are: MURDER FROM MARS STEPSONS OF MARS DATELINE:...

Amazing Stories Volume 156 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are four short stories by two different authors: "The Sons of Japeth", and "The Enemy", both by Richard Wilson and "Last Night Out", and "Formula For Murder", by Milton A Rothman.

Rediscovered after 150 years, the life story of Major General Richard G B Wilson has never been published until now. Pursued by Danger is the vivid account of one soldier's survival in his own words. From Napoleon to the Victorian era, Wilson's reminiscences reveal the action, danger, rivalries, and hard-won rewards of being an army officer in Britain's Royal Artillery. The recently graduated lieutenant was rushed to the war-torn Low Countries, where...

This week Richard is in Devon with the 1936 guide written by John Betjeman who went on to become the much-loved poet laureate and broadcaster.

In this episode Richard is following the Shell Guide to Oxfordshire, which excluded the famous city and concentrated on the wealth of other sights in the county on offer. He drives to Henley on Thames and visits one of the most famous rowing clubs in the world.