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Family Favourites

Deference, respectability, conformity, restraint and trust - the core values of 1950s family and society begin to fray at the edges.

Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's vivid and intimate history of Britain in the 1950s, drawing on the letters, diaries and memories of well-known and ordinary people.

Deference, respectability, conformity, restraint and trust - the core values of family and society begin to fray at the edges.

Abridged by Jane Greenwood.

A Loftus Audio production for 麻豆社 Radio 4.

15 minutes

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  • Tue 24 Nov 2009 09:45
  • Wed 25 Nov 2009 00:30
  • Fri 28 Jun 2013 14:15

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