Pictures and Problems from London Police Courts (version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Pictures and Problems from London Police Courts (version 2), credited to Thomas Holmes, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Pictures and Problems from London Police Courts (version 2) by Thomas Holmes. Read in English by Peter Yearsley. The author spent twenty years as a "police court missionary" (the forerunner of the modern probation officer) for the London courts. He tells us that he sat down and "cried like a child" at the end of his first day, but eventually he came to realise that "a field for the study of human nature is opened up, and nowhere in the wide world is there a field equal to it". A sympathetic man with a self-deprecating sense of humour. NOTE: A "ticket-of-leave" was a form of parole document given to a prisoner to allow him or her limited freedom outside the prison. - Summary by Peter Yearsley

Recording facts

• Recording title: Pictures and Problems from London Police Courts (version 2)
• Author credits: Thomas Holmes
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 8:31:18

Catalogue topics

• Crime
• poverty
• criminals
• probation

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter 1: How I became a police court missionary — 30:43
2. 02 - Chapter 2: In Lambeth police court — 19:05
3. 03 - Chapter 3: A change for the better — 36:42
4. 04 - Chapter 4: Husbands and wives — 47:07
5. 05 - Chapter 5: Parents and children — 44:32
6. 06 - Chapter 6: Record-breakers: Jane Cakebread — 30:13
7. 07 - Chapter 7: Record-breakers: Kate Henessey — 50:17
8. 08 - Chapter 8: Among dipsomaniacs — 36:39
9. 09 - Chapter 9: Criminals - part one — 34:39
10. 10 - Chapter 9: Criminals - part two — 32:59
11. 11 - Chapter 10: Cranks — 43:06
12. 12 - Chapter 11: The Arcadians and some account of the 'Gubbins' — 17:37
13. 13 - Chapter 12 - How the poor live - and die - part one — 31:04
14. 14 - Chapter 12 - How the poor live - and die - part two — 28:59
15. 15 - Chapter 13 - The problem of home workers — 27:36

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