Dearest Auntie Maud....
Two views of colonial life - half a century apart both from the same person, Muriel Shepherd. In the 1930s she enjoyed the lively expatriate social life of Java, which she described in letters home to her aunt.
Now, more than 50 years later, she reflects on those days in conversation with Robert Prizeman.
INGRID CRAIGIE reads from the letters.
Compiled by JEAN GRAHAM Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester