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Episode 4
Ailsa Dunn's teacher enters her for the competitive Saturday school at the Glasgow Academy of Music. Read by Maureen Beattie.
Ailsa's older sister has been sent away from the orphanage for being too disruptive and now Ailsa has to brave the playground alone. But after winning a piano competition in Glasgow her piano teacher has entered her for the Saturday school at the Glasgow Academy of Music and she throws all her energies into her new found passion.
Maureen Beattie reads Alison Gangel's vibrant memoir.
Producer: Jane Marshall
A Jane Marshall production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.
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Fri 15 Jan 2016
02:45
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