Episode 2
The author Angela Thirkell recalls her home in Kensington Square in the late 1890s and popping in to visit her neighbour, Auntie Stella - Mrs Patrick Campbell.
The author Angela Thirkell recalls her home in Kensington Square in the late 1890s, popping in to visit her neighbour, Auntie Stella aka Mrs Patrick Campbell, and the tea-time visits from her adoring grandfather, the artist Edward Burne-Jones, who kept a pad of paper at her house to draw her enchanting pictures.
Read by Sian Thomas.
Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall
A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
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