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Story Time: Little Katia: 5: A New Life

on BBC Home Service Basic

Recollections of the life of a little girl in nineteenth-century Tsarist Russia by E. M. Almedingen
Arranged for broadcasting in six parts by Bertha Lonsdale
Read by Betty Hardy
After an unhappy stay on Grandmaman's estate at Matzovka. Katia is now back home at Trostnikovo. For a year everyone is happy and then Aunt Marie dies and Cousin Sophie , exhausted with worry, goes to take the cure at Odessa on the Black Sea. While she is away Katia's old nurse. Agatha, turns up with news of Kalia's own father and new stepmother.

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Unknown:
E. M. Almedingen
Read By:
Betty Hardy
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Aunt Marie
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Cousin Sophie

BBC Home Service Basic

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