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Book of the Week: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning: Episode 1: The Beginning...

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Episode 1: The Beginning...

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

The Beginning...

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, The Beginning...

Laurie Lee's classic account of walking in Spain.

4 Extra Debut. Waving goodbye to mother and walking to London, with busking on the way. Tobias Menzies reads Laurie Lee's classic travel book.

Author Laurie Lee leaves home on a bright Sunday morning, taking his hazel walking stick, some clothes and a trusty violin. 

Destination? It's London first, then on to…where?

Laurie Lee's classic account of walking through Spain in the 1930s read by Tobias Menzies

Abridged in five episodes by Katrin Williams.

Producer:  Duncan Minshull

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014.

Book of the Week: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

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Laurie Lee's classic account of walking through Spain in the 1930s.

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