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Afternoon Reading: Sylvia Townsend Warner - Winter in the Air and Other Stories

Afternoon Reading: Sylvia Townsend Warner - Winter in the Air and Other Stories: Episode 3: Idenborough

Winter in the Air and Other Stories

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Episode 3: Idenborough

Sylvia Townsend Warner - Winter in the Air and Other Stories

Idenborough

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Amabel recalls an idyllic weekend spent in the English countryside 20 years before.

Amabel recalls an idyllic weekend spent in the English countryside 20 years before. Read by Susannah Harker.

Idenborough is selected from Sylvia Townsend Warner's collection, Winter in the Air. In this story, Amabel is taken on a trip through the English countryside. An overnight stay in a picturesque village calls to mind a memory from twenty years before. 

The stories in Winter in the Air were written between 1938 and 1950. They capture the mood and atmosphere of the times, and the lot of women in mid twentieth century England. Sylvia Townsend Warner is less well known today, but in her time was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and poetry. She also wrote a biography of T.H. White. These stories remind us that she was a sharp, insightful, and vivid storyteller.

The reader is Susannah Harker
Abridged by Richard Hamilton
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.

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Stories that capture the mood of mid 20th-century England

Written between 1938 and 1950, these stories capture the mood and atmosphere of the times, and the lot of women in mid 20th-century England

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