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Woman's Hour

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

with Sue MacGregor
Including during the week someTalkingPoint discussions, Your Letters and other topics.
Among these today
The Joys o/ Yiddish: SUE MARGOLIS learns about the renewal of interest in a language with overtones of the ghetto.
ROY DOTRICE - a Guernseyman himself., and about to portray old Guernseyman Ebenezer Le Page in the new serial - talks about the island and its highly-Individual language.
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G. B. EDWARDS
Part One. abridged in ten parts by DOREEN ESTALL
Read by Roy Dotrlce (1) G. B. Edwards died in 1870. This, his only novel, about an old
Guernseyman whose life span stretches from before the Boer War to the 1960s. was published posthumously to great acclaim In 1981.
(Music: Planel's Trumpet Concerto)
Editor WYN KNOWLES
The Woman's Hour Book, £6.50 from booksellers

Contributors

Unknown:
Sue MacGregor
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Roy Dotrice
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G. B. Edwards
Read By:
Roy Dotrlce
Read By:
G. B. Edwards
Editor:
Wyn Knowles
Source: Radio Times

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