by Ed Thomason.

First in a series celebrating the centenary of the novelist, playwright, essayist and broadcaster's birth. Priestley's enormous output and creative energy gave pleasure all over the world and his work is now enjoying something of a renaissance. Paul Copley reads from Priestley's own account of his early life up to 1929.

With Alan Ayckbourn, John Braine, Judi Dench, Michael Foot, Richard Hoggart, J.W. Lambert and Margaret Stevens.