BBC R4 - Malachai Whitaker's 'And So Did I'
Broadcast in the 'Book At Bedtime' slot.
Abridged by Elizabeth Bradbury
Read by Stephanie Turner
Produced by Tony Cliff
Broadcast July, 1988
Coded from tape at 128/44.1

Readings from Whitaker's memoir 'And So Did I' [1939].

Beautiful clear schmaltz free prose from a level headed
Yorkshire woman.

BBC Blurb
The autobiography of the Yorkshire writer, once called
the Bradford Chekhov. An insight  into the pleasures,
sadnesses and preoccupations of a remarkable woman.
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Includes interesting material from the WWI home front,
the immediate post war years, and late 1920s' France.

Closing words
Now and again the truth has passed so near to me that
I see the shadow of its passing, and mourn. But god has
not yet turned up ...

... I don't want to be safe in the arms of Jesus because
I should be restless to get out after a very short time.
And even ashamed. I do not see the need of a heaven ...

... I cannot say of the fire of life that it sinks, and I am not
ready to depart because I may be useful yet. But I do say
that life has been perfect in parts. I am and always shall
be grateful and glad that I was ever born.
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Werrrl, almost schmaltz free.