Richard Wilson

It was big news for reporters throughout the solar system. After a cargo-liner en route from Earth to Mars blew up as it was coming in for a landing, killing all eight persons aboard, the workers went on strike. Spacemen had walked out in a demand for higher pay and better retirement benefits. The spacemen's union included not only pilots but crewmen, mechanics, and maintenance workers at the spaceports.

But was it a tragic accident—or

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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

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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.

'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...

Amazing Stories Volume 100 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are five short stories: One story by Richard Wilson, "The Sons of Japheth", one story by Henry Kuttner, "Dark Dawn", one story by Stanley G. Weinbaum, "Valley of Dreams", one story by George O. Smith, "The Answer", and one story by R. H. Barlow, "R.E.H.".

Four Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction. Featured here: "Dateline: Mars", "Double Take", "The Inhabitated", and "Back to Julie" all by Richard Wilson.

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...

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.

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.