Welcome to Roy Beagley's Page

Welcome to the website containing links and information about Roy Beagley.

Roy broadcasts a weekly live show on Angel Radio based in Havant Hampshire
as well as three other recorded shows, Beagley at Night, After Hours and Good Morning.

As well as these shows he has also presented the Romance Hour for over 700 shows. The program can be heard on
various radio stations around the world.

In March 2023 Roy's first book was published by Austin Macauley and you can get
more information on this below.

KING GEORGE BY ROY BEAGLEY.

Devotees of E.F. Benson’s books on the people of Tilling will not be disappointed in this sequel. From cricket matches, Christmas lunches and Roman villas, the lives of the residents of Tilling are laid bare once again with all their small-village craziness. Not only Tilling, but also the residents of Risenholme, and friends from London, all come to Tilling to play a part in pre-war village Britain. Once again, Elizabeth Mapp tries to prove to the world that she is right and Tilling is wrong in their love for Lucia. All the past characters are here including Mr and Mrs Wyse, Quaint Irene, Diva, the Padre as well as Janet and Foljambe and there is a new character to invade the peaceful and tranquil lives of the residents whose identity confounds and confuses them.

Devotees of E.F. Benson’s books on the people of Tilling will not be disappointed in this sequel. From cricket matches, Christmas lunches and Roman villas, the lives of the residents of Tilling are laid bare once again with all their small-village craziness. Not only Tilling, but also the residents of Risenholme, and friends from London, all come to Tilling to play a part in pre-war village Britain. Once again, Elizabeth Mapp tries to prove to the world that she is right and Tilling is wrong in their love for Lucia. All the past characters are here including Mr and Mrs Wyse, Quaint Irene, Diva, the Padre as well as Janet and Foljambe and there is a new character to invade the peaceful and tranquil lives of the residents whose identity confounds and confuses them.

E. F. Benson wrote Queen Lucia, the first of the five books devoted to Elizabeth Mapp and Lucia Lucas, in 1922. This was followed by Miss Mapp two years later and then Lucia in London, Mapp and Lucia, Lucia’s Progress, and finally in 1939 by Trouble for Lucia. Miss Mapp and Mapp and Lucia were set mainly in Tilling while the other three books revolved around the residents of Risenholme. The beauty of books, to me at any rate, is they are ageless. There is very little to determine in any of the original books the dates they are set in, so they all flow together to create one delicious read from start to finish. King George is set in 1937 and covers just over a year of the lives of the residents of Tilling and Risenholme. I firmly believe you do not need to have read the previous books to enjoy this, indeed reading this may well move you to go back to the beginning to see how the mastery of E. F. Benson started the whole thing.

DIARY FOR DECEMBER.

December has come as has the first snow, not much but enough to reminder me winter arrives in a few weeks time.

Going to be a busy month what with sending cards and preparing menus for Christmas and we have guests as well.

I always think "this year I am going to invite the neighbors in for a Christmas drink" and every year I fail so to do, this year I will try harder.

Having a dinner party this Saturday and have planned a nice menu and for desert I am going to give a load of Americans a selection of "local" cheeses because I am convinced there are no cheeses finer than from within the islands of Great Britain and Ireland . Cashel Blue, Shropshire Blue, Red Leicester and yes, if I can find it, some Stinking Bishop!

Happy Christmas, and here's to a wonderful 2025.

Roy was born in Kent in southern England in June 1957, a Gemini. He lived in Chelsfield for four years then moved down the hill to Green Street Green sometime before England won their one and only world cup.

He went to Green Street Green Infants school where he learned how to pour water from one jug into another jug, count to ten and spell the word dog. From there it was onto Vine Road School where he spectacularly failed his eleven plus and as a result was sent to what was commonly and locally called Charterhouse. Sadly it was not THE Charterhouse School but this popular confusion between schools resulted in more than one employment later in life.

At school he was told he would never amount to anything, was terrible at writing and could not form a sentence verbally or otherwise.

After leaving school at 15 and working at various temporary jobs, he joined The Economist Newspaper in London in the circulation department. After two years he moved on to run the north American subscription section.

Leaving The Economist in 1983 he went to South Publications for nearly five years and then to The Spectator magazine for a further five years.

In 1992 he moved to the United States to get married and eventually joined his wife and sister-in-law's advertising agency designing direct mail for various clients as well as running the day-to-day circulation and marketing for various publishers around the world. Roy worked on many direct mails and renewal campaigns.

Technically he retired in 2000 and spent time developing radio programs for various stations and also writing his first book, published in March 2023.

Currently he is working on two further books, a continuation of King George set shortly after the second world war and also an original thriller provisionally called To Take a King.

Roy lives in Danbury in Connecticut with his wife Elaine and their pride and joy Mac, their cat who spends every day ignoring them except to be fed or petted or sleep on.

Show	UK Time GMT/UTV	USA East Coast EST	Australia AEDT	New Zealand NZDT	South Africa SAST
Good Morning - Monday	7.30am	2.30am	6.30pm	8.30pm	9.30am
Mid-morning Show Live - Tuesday	10.00am	5.00am	9.00pm	11.00pm	12.00pm
After Hours - Tuesday	11.00pm	6.00pm	10.00am (Wed)	12.00pm (Wed)	Midnight
Beagley at Night - Tuesday	Midnight	7.00pm	10.00am (Wed)	12.00pm (Wed)	1.00am (Wed)
Roy can also be heard live on Affinityradio.net Saturday evenings at 18.00 UK time for two hours each week. Click here for radio shows.