Episode 2
Newly arrived at Ardrossan Academy, whole worlds of learning are opening up. Janice Galloway recalls her 1970s adolescence.
Award-winning author Janice Galloway reads extracts from her new book - a compelling account of her adolescence in 1970s Scotland. Young Janice has arrived at secondary school bearing a huge weight of expectation from her eager mother and unpredictable, violent, sister.
Read by the author and abridged by Sian Preece.
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie.
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