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Book of the Week: My Judy Garland Life

Book of the Week: My Judy Garland Life: Episode 2: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

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My Judy Garland Life

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Episode 2: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, My Judy Garland Life, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Susie remembers her 'Judy-like' family Christmases and her attempts to emulate her heroine

Susie Boyt compares her Freud family Yuletides to the sometimes difficult childhood of her heroine. Read by Tamsin Grieg.

Tamsin Grieg reads from Susie Boyt's tribute to her screen idol Judy Garland. Interweaving her childhood memories of Judy with parallels from her own rather unconventional family life, including her father Lucien Freud's move from Berlin under the Nazis to postwar London, Susie explains how Judy helped her to escape the 'hellish bits of the everyday'.

Susie remembers her fabulous 'Judy-like' family Christmases and her many attempts to emulate her heroine on stage.

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Susie Boyt's tribute to her screen idol Judy Garland

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