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A Book at Bedtime: Travels with my Aunt

on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Graham Greene: abridged by Geoffrey M. Matthews
Read by Timothy West

'I met my Aunt for the first time at my mother's funeral. I heard a voice behind me saying in clear old accents. "I was present once at a premature cremation." It was my Aunt Augusta who had arrived late, dressed rather like Queen Mary. I was surprised by her brilliant red hair, monumentally piled, and her two big front teeth which gave her a vital Neanderthal air... '
(First of 20 instalments)

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Author:
Graham Greene
Abridged by:
Geoffrey M. Matthews
Reader:
Timothy West
Producer:
Rosemary Hart

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