Introduced by Sue MacGregor Women Who Mind their Own Business
An occasional series
3: Entrepreneurs at 40
A nurse opens a factory and a teacher an unusual bookshop. SONIA BEESLEY reports.
Serial: Blue Remembered Hills by ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF
Abridged in seven episodes by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by Elizabeth Spriggs (1)
Rosemary Sutcliff was, as a child, a victim of Still's disease (juvenile arthritis) which curtailed her life physically. That she lived all the more intensely through her imagination is clear from these memoirs and from the many historical novels she has produced in adult life.
(Music: MacDowell's To a wild rose)