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Radio 4 Extra,11 Jan 2026,70 mins

Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear (Omnibus)

Available for 30 days

Linda Lear’s biography of the 20th century's most-beloved children's writer and creator of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter. Despite her Kensington upbringing, Potter was ‘emotionally rooted’ in the Lake District and farm life appealed to her. These were the landscapes which nurtured her creative imagination. Omnibus of five-parts abridged by Alison Joseph. Read by Lindsay Duncan. Producer: Kirsteen Cameron First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2006.

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