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Amabel recalls an idyllic weekend spent in the English countryside 20 years before. Read by Susannah Harker.

Idenborough is selected from Sylvia Townsend Warner's collection, Winter in the Air. In this story, Amabel is taken on a trip through the English countryside. An overnight stay in a picturesque village calls to mind a memory from twenty years before.

The stories in Winter in the Air were written between 1938 and 1950. They capture the mood and atmosphere of the times, and the lot of women in mid twentieth century England. Sylvia Townsend Warner is less well known today, but in her time was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and poetry. She also wrote a biography of T.H. White. These stories remind us that she was a sharp, insightful, and vivid storyteller.

The reader is Susannah Harker
Abridged by Richard Hamilton
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.

15 minutes

Last on

Mon 27 Apr 2015 03:45

Broadcasts

  • Thu 2 Jun 2011 15:30
  • Sun 13 Jan 2013 00:30
  • Sun 26 Apr 2015 15:45
  • Mon 27 Apr 2015 03:45