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Synopsis for a Stanley Spencer

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

In 1917 Stanley Spencer, in Salonika, wrote a number of letters to his friend Desmond Chute. Some of these letters recreate in words the world of Cookham and of Spencer's paintings.
Stanley Cerely, who found the letters accidentally in Cookham, introduces one of them.
Read by Roy Spencer

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Presenter:
Stanley Cerely
Reader:
Roy Spencer
Source: Radio Times

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