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An occasional series which brings fresh insight into lives through literature. Each week a guest presenter picks readings of their favourite poetry and prose.
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Pam Ayres

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Puffin Classics

William Holds the Stage by Richmal Crompton, from William Stories - a selection by Martin Jarvis
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The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
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Alas, Alack by Walter de la Mare, from the Oxford Book of Children's Verse

Clancy of the Overflow by Banjo Patterson
Wordsworth Poetry Library

The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency by John Seymour
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The Sower by Laurence Binyon, from Men Who March Away - an anthology by I M Parsons
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A Kind of Magic by Mollie Harris
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