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The Secret Life of Books

Series 2

Episode 5: Cider with Rosie

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Four

Available for years

Author Joanna Trollope traces the roots of her favourite book Cider with Rosie to uncover how Laurie Lee blended fact and fiction in his wistful elegy to a disappeared rural world. Show more

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