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The Secret Life of Books

Series 2

Episode 5: Cider with Rosie

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

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Best-selling chronicler of modern country life, Joanna Trollope traces the roots of her favourite book Cider with Rosie to uncover how Laurie Lee blended fact and fiction in his wistful elegy to a disappeared rural world - and reflect on why a book with such dark, hard-edged undercurrents continues to have such a popular appeal. Show less

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