Settle down and enjoy as ten favourite children's writers read extracts from their own books. Spanning 75 years of the great tradition of children's writing in Britain, their works reflects the changing fashions and themes.
Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales star in Ladies of Letters and Ladies of More Letters, the two popular BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour series. Patricia Routledge is Vera Small and Prunella Scales is her friend (or maybe enemy), Irene Spencer. The two pass their time in regular correspondence and not an event goes by that is left unrecorded by the ladies of letters. Firstly there are the usual family problems to...