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Hens, Hons And Funerals - Jessica Mitford

4 Extra Debut. Writer and activist Jessica Mitford talks to Robert Kee about both her notorious family - and American funerals. From 1964.

Historian and documentary maker Robert Kee talks to writer and activist Jessica Mitford.

Jessica Mitford has written two books: in Hons and Rebels she described the Mitford family life and her escape from it; The American Way of Death is an attack on the elaboration of American funerals. These two books, and her impressions of life in America, are the subject of this conversation.

Produced by Richard Keen.

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in August 1964.

30 minutes

Last on

Sun 28 Jan 202405:00

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