Brief encounters, stiff upper lips and clipped vowels - the actress Celia Johnson epitomised the austere elegance of post-war Britain. Jenni Murray talks to her daughters Kate and Lucy Fleming as Lucy begins a 12-part reading of Kate's biography of their mother. Serial: Celia Johnson
"The beginning was very ordinary. Celia Elizabeth Johnson was born in 1908 in Surrey, where her father was a doctor." Abndged by Meg Clarke
Music: Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto
Editor Clare Selerie