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The Grave and the Cradle

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Children's writer, Michael Morpurgo explores a thousand years of British childhood, beginning with the arrival of Christianity and the Norman Conquest.

Readers: Timothy West, Adam Godley and Anna Maxwell Martin.

Producer: Beaty Rubens

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in 2006.

15 minutes

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