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Afternoon Play: Jessie Kesson - a Good Crack at life

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By Jenny Lee. Jessie Kesson was born in a workhouse in Inverness and brought up in an orphanage in the 1920s. Her ambition was to write poetry as great as Shakespeare and on the day she receives her honorary doctorate at Aberdeen University she looks back at her astonishing journey. Director Sue Wilson

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenny Lee.
Unknown:
Jessie Kesson
Director:
Sue Wilson
Jessie Kesson:
Jenny Lee
Vice chancellor:
Jamie Ballard
Waiter:
Jamie Ballard
Source: Radio Times

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