Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week: Jean Metcalfe
New York Report: from HELENE HANFF
Reading Your Letters.
Fashionable Froth: why do women still wear stockings? RON ALLDRIDGE investigates.
Mrs Miniver's Daughter: JANET GRAHAM RANCE remembers her mother, the author, Jan Struther.
Mrs Miniver by JAN STRUTHER , abridged in six parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN Read by Faith Brook (1)
Shortly before war broke out, an editor of The Times summoned Jan Struther to his office. ' The trouble with the articles on the Court Page,' he said gravely, 'is that they are all about woodpeckers.' He went on to suggest that she should write something about ' an ordinary sort of woman ... something like yourself.' Out of this Mrs Miniver was born, and became in time a famous Hollywood film.
(Music: Glazunov's Saxophone Concerto)