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Story Time: Kif: 1: A New Life

on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Josephine Tey, abridged in ten parts by Barry Campbell. Read by Jack Watson.
This was Josephine Tey's first book, published in 1929 under the name of Gordon Daviot, Kif goes to work on a farm in the Border country after the death of his parents, but finds the life so monotonous that he decides to enlist, at the age of 15, four months after the outbreak of the First World War. BBC Bristol

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Author:
Josephine Tey
Abridged by:
Barry Campbell
Reader:
Jack Watson
Producer:
Michael Bowen

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