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2. Torpedo
A ship is hit by a torpedo and one woman’s terrifying account of what followed is recalled. Read by Fenella Woolgar.
Virginia Nicholson's evocative account of the Second World War is told through a multitude of individual women's experiences.
As their stories unfold, we discover how they loved, suffered, laughed, grieved and dared.
A ship is hit by a torpedo, and Mary Cornish's terrifying account of the hours and days that followed is recalled.
Abridged by Doreen Estall.
Read by Fenella Woolgar.
Producer: Elizabeth Allard.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2011.
Last on
Wed 7 May 202503:30
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