Episode 5
It's Christmas at Angela Thirkell's grandfather's house, and the waits and the mummers are busy touring the village. For one little girl, it's a tiny dormouse that makes the day.
A beautifully nostalgic childhood memoir of Britain in the late 1890s, written by the eminent author Angela Thirkell.
She recalls in rich detail, and with a delightful sense of humour, the three houses which were seminal to her youth.
It's Christmas at North End House in Rottingdean and the waits and the mummers are busy touring the village. But for one little girl, opening her stocking on her grandmother's bed, it's a tiny dormouse that steals the day.
Read by Sian Thomas
Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall.
A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.
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