1. Return to Seattle

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Betty MacDonald’s hilarious account of survival during the USA's Great Depression, under the wing of her sister Mary. Mary is quite certain that anybody can do anything, especially Betty. So Betty leaves her husband and his chicken ranch and returns to the bosom of her warm and noisy family in Seattle. Abridged in ten parts by Jennifer Howarth. Read by Debora Weston. Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2009.