The Green light: From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

Barry Eric Odell Pain was born at 3 Sydney Street in Cambridge on 28th September 1864. He was one of 4 children.

He was educated at Sedbergh School and then Corpus Christi College, Cambridge where he read classics and contributed to and edited Granta.

Four years of service as an Army coach followed before he moved to London. In 1889, Cornhill Magazine published his short story `The Hundred Gates'. This opened the way for Pain to advance his literary career on several fronts. He became a contr...