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

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Book of the Week: Alison Gangel - The Sun Hasn't Fallen From the Sky

Book of the Week: Alison Gangel - The Sun Hasn't Fallen From the Sky: Episode 5

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The Sun Hasn't Fallen from the Sky

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Alison Gangel - The Sun Hasn't Fallen From the Sky

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Alison Gangel - The Sun Hasn't Fallen From the Sky, Episode 5

When her piano teacher discovers she's been missing classes, Ailsa is keen to make amends.

Overwhelmed Ailsa misses Academy classes. When her teacher finds out, she tries to make amends. Concluded by Maureen Beattie.

Overwhelmed by both the atmosphere and the other confident students at the Academy of Music, Ailsa has not been attending her Saturday classes. But when the people at the orphanage find out and tell her beloved music teacher she is desperate to make amends.

Maureen Beattie reads Alison Gangel's vibrant memoir. 


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Alison Gangel's moving memoir of a chaotic childhood in late 1960s Glasgow.

Alison Gangel's moving memoir of a chaotic childhood in late 1960s Glasgow. Read by Maureen Beattie

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