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The Railway Children

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

The story of Bobbie, Phyllis and Peter - The Railway
Children - has touched and moved generations of readers for more than a hundred years since E Nesbit published the first episode in the London Magazine in January 1905. Nesbit's biographer Julia Briggs visits the Edwardian writer's childhood home to discover the inspiration behind this eternal Classic. Producer Rachel White

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Unknown:
Julia Briggs
Producer:
Rachel White
Source: Radio Times

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