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Unlike Mary, Betty is hopeless at selling advertising. So she gets work as a photographic tinter, a fur coat model-cum-book-keeper and secretary to a mobster! Betty MacDonald’s hilarious account of survival during the USA's Great Depression back in Seattle, under the wing of her sister Mary. Abridged by Jennifer Howarth. Read by Debora Weston. Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2009.
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