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A Pity Success Has Come So Late in Life

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Violet Carson recalls life before she donned a hair net and became Ena Sharples; how she and her younger sister joined the Market Street Cinema orchestra; being a solo with the BBC Northern Orchestra, singing in Children's Hour, playing 'anything and everything they threw at me' in Have a Go and becoming a radio actress. Introduced by Geoffrey Wheeler
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Subject:
Violet Carson
Presenter:
Geoffrey Wheeler
Writer/Producer:
Trevor Hill
Source: Radio Times

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