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Betty gets work as a photographic tinter, a fur coat model-cum-book-keeper and secretary to a mobster. Read by Debora Weston.
Unlike Mary, Betty is hopeless at selling advertising.
So she gets work as a photographic tinter, a fur coat model-cum-book-keeper and secretary to a mobster!
Betty MacDonald’s hilarious account of survival during the USA's Great Depression back in Seattle, under the wing of her sister Mary.
Abridged by Jennifer Howarth.
Read by Debora Weston.
Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2009.
Last on
Sat 28 Feb 202603:30
BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Fri 17 Apr 200922:45BBC Radio 4- Fri 27 Feb 202608:30BBC Radio 4 Extra
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