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Alice Munro - Too Much Happiness

Episode 1: Free Radicals

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for over a year

Series of short stories from the new collection by Canadian author Alice Munro.

A newly widowed woman, who is herself dying, is alone in the home she and her husband made their own after she had played the role of 'home wrecker' and replaced his first wife. But it is the first wife that she must look to when a stranger threatens at her own kitchen table.

Read by Barbara Barnes.

Abridged by Sally Marmion. Show less

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