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A Book at Bedtime: Bevis: The Story of a Boy: 1

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by Richard Jefferies, abridged in 15 episodes by Donald Bancroft
Read by Michael Williams

Never were the horizons of boyhood so limitless in imagination as the adventures of Mark and Bevis on their wide stretch of water, 'The New Sea', which Jefferies remembered from his own Wiltshire landscape. First published in 1882, the book remains one of the enduring accounts of a country upbringing.
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Author:
Richard Jefferies
Abridged by:
Donald Bancroft
Reader:
Michael Williams
Producer:
Maurice Leitch
Source: Radio Times

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