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Blackberry Day
Episode 2 of 3
By Malachi Whitaker. Betty finds it hard to come to terms with Ben's retirement from the mill. Rosalind Ayres reads Malachi Whitaker's rediscovered, moving tale.
Malachi Whitaker was the pen name of Marjorie Olive Whitaker. She wrote a number of short stories in the twenties and thirties and was regarded as one of the finest authors of that time.
Whitaker chronicled the lives of ordinary folk in the north of England, with sensitivity and humanity. She died in 1975. Her forgotten story, 'Blackberry Day' is a moving account of a woman in the Yorkshire Dales finding it hard to come terms with her husband's retirement from the mill.
Reader: Rosalind Ayres
Producer/Director: Martin Jarvis
A Jarvis & Ayres Production for 91热爆 Radio 4.
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