The last of six programmes about writers and their world.

Hugh Casson on "Lark Rise to Candleford"

Flora Thompson, whose trilogy "Lark Rise to Candleford" is regarded by many as a masterpiece, grew up in North Oxfordshire in the 1880s with little money and few prospects. Hugh Casson, the newly elected President of the Royal Academy, has for many years had a particular love for Flora Thompson's work and her unique account of life in a country hamlet at the turn of the century.