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It's November 1918. A woman is looking for something in a cornfield. This is Mrs William Heelis, née Beatrix Potter. She is 52, happily married and a successful farmer. Potter was "emotionally rooted" in the Lake District and farm life appealed to her. She had worked hard to shed the outward vestiges of her Kensington upbringing and her roots were in the "North Country". These were the landscapes which nurtured her creative imagination. Linda Lear’s biography of the 20th century's most-beloved children's writer and creator of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter. Abridged in five parts by Alison Joseph Read by Lindsay Duncan. Producer: Kirsteen Cameron First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2006.
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