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One Man Against the Drylands

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Drought is our inseparable companion and we must learn to live with it ... With our adverse climate we can never produce sufficient food in the bad years. I fear that the land, at these times, rather than feeding the people, is nourished by the bodies of those who are buried in it.
PEGGY BENTON tells the story of Padre Lira Parente's struggle to save a dying people in the desolation of north-east Brazil, and the support he found in the person of Muriel Heading Mitchell living thousands of miles away in Winchester.
Padre Lira's letters read by ANTHONY JACOBS
Producer HELEN FRY

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Unknown:
Peggy Benton
Read By:
Anthony Jacobs
Producer:
Helen Fry
Source: Radio Times

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