Growing Pains

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Growing Pains: 2. I Capture The Castle

2. I Capture The Castle

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Growing Pains, 2. I Capture The Castle

Grace Dent goes back to her awkward teenage years with help from the BBC archives. 

Grace Dent rifles through the BBC Radio archives to celebrate the awkward, emotional, and unfortunately inevitable adolescent experience.

Grace Dent locks herself in her teenage bedroom and rifles through the BBC Radio archives to celebrate the awkward, emotional, and unfortunately inevitable adolescent experience.

She reminisces about the heartbreak and arguments that were an everyday part of her own teenage years growing up in Carlisle in the 1970s. 

In the second of three episodes, Grace dips into the BBC Archives and come up with one of her favourite depictions of adolescence:

*    'I Capture The Castle'

The first part of Jane Rodgers' adaptation of Dodie Smith's classic novel, starring Holliday Grainger. 

In the ruins of a medieval castle, deep in rural 1930's Suffolk, funny, intelligent 17 year old Cassandra Mortmain attempts to capture her family's life in a journal.

From BBC Radio 4 (2015).  

Producer: Jessica Treen

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra. First broadcast in October 2017.

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Grace Dent celebrates the awkward, emotional, and unavoidable experience of adolescence.

Made for 4 Extra. Grace Dent locks herself in her bedroom and rifles through the BBC Radio archives to celebrate the awkward, emotional, and unavoidable experience of adolescence.

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