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

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

Here's Darren Rapier and Mat Braddy, co-writers of TURPIN starring Dónal Finn, on hearing it come alive. TURPIN: Essex Pistols, starring Dónal Finn. Out now from bigfinish.com (@bigfinish) from £/$16.99. Free 15-minute preview at turpinhq.co.uk

Turpin thought robbing houses was the line. Sam's about to show him there isn't one. Brian Bovell is Sam Gregory. Dónal Finn is Dick Turpin. A new full-cast audio drama from Big Finish. OUT NOW. Worldwide release. July 2026. turpinhq.co.uk @bigfinishprod

Here's Lizzie Worsdell on the running joke that followed her from drama school, from the world of TURPIN, starring Dónal Finn as Dick Turpin. Out now from bigfinish.com (@bigfinish) from £/$16.99. Free 15-minute preview at turpinhq.co.uk #Turpin #DonalFinn

21 September 1705. Baptised at St Andrew's Church, Hempstead. Fifth of six children to John and Mary Turpin. Just another butcher's son. 33 years later, I'd be the most wanted man in England. Turpin audio drama turpinhq.co.uk #History #OnThisDay #DickTurpin