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Woman's Hour

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Christa Ackroyd meets the novelist Penelope Lively , author of today's new serial, According to Mark.
(Revised repeat at 7.20pm on LW) Serial:
According to Mark by Penelope Lively.
The first of 12 episodes read by Ronald Pickup. Mark Lamming is a biographer. One spring morning he leaves London for Dorset to research his latest subject: the Victorian writer Gilbert Strong. There he meets Strong's granddaughter, and as the year progresses he comes to question not only his own and Strong's life, but biography itself. Abridged by Monica Grey
Music: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge by Benjamin Britten. Editors Clare Selerie and Sally Feldman

Contributors

Unknown:
Christa Ackroyd
Unknown:
Penelope Lively
Unknown:
Penelope Lively.
Read By:
Ronald Pickup.
Read By:
Mark Lamming
Unknown:
Gilbert Strong.
Abridged By:
Monica Grey
Unknown:
Benjamin Britten.
Editors:
Clare Selerie
Editors:
Sally Feldman
Source: Radio Times

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