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Episode 4: Edwina Currie: A Ferry Across the Mersey

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Edwina Currie returns to her native city for a ferry ride across the river Mersey, where in an end-of-school ritual she and her peers threw their school berets into the water. Show more

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