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Between the EarsAlice at Crackpot HallAlice at Crackpot Hall

The truth behind the story of a wild child found roaming at Crackpot Hall in Swaledale

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Alice in the hayfields

Alice in the hayfields

  • David Almond working on the programme outside Crackpot Hall
  • Looking down the valley from Crackpot Hall
  • Crackpot Hall in the 1930s
  • Alice with four of her five siblings – she is the blond child in the middle
  • Alice with her parents and Moss, the dog
  • Alice in the hayfields
  • Alice as a young woman at the new farm near Hawes
  • Alice today, with David Almond, at her daughter's house near Carlisle
  • Alice reflecting on her longing to revisit the Dales
  • Alice in fine form after sharing her memories with David Almond
  • And finally.......only discovered after the first broadcast - Alice on the day when Marie and Ella met her!

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