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Free at Last - The Benn Diaries 1991 to 2001

Episode 5

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Tony Benn reads the final extracts from "Free at Last- Diaries 1991 - 2001", first broadcast in 2003.

Today's episode is profoundly personal as it recounts the final illness of his beloved wife Caroline. Yet this intensely moving account of their 51-year marriage as it is transformed by the imminence of death is not all sadness. There is much joy, humour to be shared ... and even a little bit of political gossip.

Read by Tony Benn
Produced by Jane Ray. Show less

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