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Serialised book readings, featuring works from various genres

Serialised book readings, featuring works of non-fiction, biography, autobiography, travel, diaries, essays, humour and history

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Book of the Week: David Kynaston - Family Britain

Book of the Week: David Kynaston - Family Britain: Episode 4: Brisk Buying and Selling

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David Kynaston - Family Britain

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Episode 4: Brisk Buying and Selling

Brisk Buying and Selling

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, David Kynaston - Family Britain, Brisk Buying and Selling

A new era of affluence is fuelled by an advertising boom and the arrival of commercial TV.

A new era of affluence in the 1950s is fuelled by a boom in advertising and the arrival of commercial TV. Read by Dominic West.

Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's vivid and intimate history of Britain in the 1950s, drawing on the letters, diaries and memories of well-known and ordinary people.

A new era of affluence is fuelled by a boom in advertising and the arrival of commercial television.

Abridged by Jane Greenwood.

A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4.

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Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's vivid and intimate story of Britain in the 1950s

Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's vivid and intimate story of Britain in the 1950s, drawing on the letters, diaries and memories of well-known and ordinary people

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