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Famous Gossips: Augustus Hare - The Years with Mother 1834-1903

BBC One
on BBC One London

Six literary immortals brought to life by six actors of today.
Augustus Hare The Years with Mother 1834-1903 played by Alan Bennett who gossips about...
Miss Jenny Lind, the Swedish nightingale... Mr. Walter Savage Landor throwing away his dinners... recollections of Dr. Johnson... Lord Nelson, 'a wonderful little man'... twelve Dukes of Hamilton at the Resurrection... oddities of Oscar Wilde..
Introduced by Hugo Dyson.
Adapted from Augustus Hare's The story of My Life

Contributors

Presenter:
Hugo Dyson
Author (The Story of My Life):
Augustus Hare
Designer:
Julia Trevelyan Oman
Producer:
Patrick Garland
Augustus Hare:
Alan Bennett
Source: Radio Times

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