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    Leslie Flint (1911-1994) was probably the most famous direct voice medium of modern times. In a career that began before the Second World War and lasted well into the 1970s he gave hundreds of séances at which communicating entities were able to speak through him. These included not just ordinary souls but the spirits of many famous and departed people including Sir Winston Churchill, Maurice Chevalier, Mahatma Gandhi, Rudolph Valentino, George Bernard Shaw and Lionel Barrymore to name but a few. During the course of his 42 years as a professional medium Flint was subjected to several tests by organisations as diverse as the Society for Psychical Research and the Sunday Express newspaper - neither could establish how Flint produced the spirit communications although he was controlled by being gagged and bound firmly into a chair. In 1955 two researchers, Betty Greene and George Woods, began making tape recording of Flint's séances and in a 15 year period they amassed a library amounting to over 500 individual recordings.
   A most interesting and informative read is Lesley’s autobiography: “Voices in the Dark”. Here is the introduction to the book:

    “In spite of a childhood which would give any modern child psychiatrist nightmares, or perhaps because of it, I have reached the age of fifty-nine  without falling prey to neurosis, psychosis or even the screaming meemies. I am a happy man. I have friends who delight me and I find satisfaction and fulfilment in my work. I do my work by sitting wide awake in total darkness. with other people. I am a medium.”

   The story which follows is of extraordinary interest because Lesley Flint, as a medium, is unique. He has the rare gift of independent direct voice and recorded on tapes are literally hundreds of voices of the so-called ‘dead’ who have come to speak to him and his sitters at public and private séances throughout his long and brilliant career as a medium.

   These voices come, not directly through Lesley Flint, but from the darkness above him. He is not an any state of trance and he does not employ any of the paraphernalia usually associated with mediums.

   He has been tested by most means known to psychical research, with his lips sealed, with electrical devices attached to his throat  in his own home and outside, and still the voices come - Oscar Wilde, Ellen Terry, Stephen Ward, Cosmo Lang - a host of famous communicators as well as many ordinary people trying to contact living friends and relatives.

   This is not just the account of his mediumship and of the fascinating, moving and often amusing episodes he has experienced in the course of it, but a light-hearted and entertaining personal story - of the silent film fan who plunged the cinema into darkness, the dancing teacher misunderstood by his partner, the conscientious objector who dismantled bombs - that will engage and entertain a great many readers.

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