English wine cask units the mediæval French and Italian "botte") or pipe was half a tun, or 1008 pints. Tradition has it that George, Duke of Clarence, the brother of Edward IV of England, was drowned in a butt of malmsey on 18 February 1478. (However, Josephine Tey in "The Daughter of Time" suggests that "drowned in a butt of malmsey" means rather that George, Duke of Clarence, drank himself to death rather than literally drowning in a container of wine.) In Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado", the narrator claims he has received "a pipe of what passes for Amontillado".
The Feast of the Drowned version of "The Feast of the Drowned", read by David Tennant, was released in July 2006 by BBC Audiobooks. Also included was an interview with the author by David Darlington. The audio book version was given away free in two parts with two consecutive issues of "Radio Times" in December 2006 and January 2007. These versions omitted the interview. The Feast of the Drowned The Feast of the Drowned is a BBC Books original novel written by Stephen Cole and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It was published on 13 April 2006, alongside "The