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Episode 5

Book at Bedtime Anybody Can Do Anything
Episode 5 of 10

Debora Weston reads Betty MacDonald's comic novel about life as a single mother in America during the Great Depression.

Unlike Mary, Betty is hopeless at selling advertising, so she gets work as a photographic tinter, a fur coat model-cum-book-keeper and secretary to a mobster.

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Fri 17 Apr 2009 22:45
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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