Episode 5
Austere times ahead, after Jane Shilling's working life as a freelance journalist receives a blow. Concluded by Samantha Bond.
The Stranger in the Mirror is Jane Shilling's memoir about middle age, and looks both backwards and forwards to new adventures. Today austere times lie ahead after Jane's working life as a freelance journalist receives a blow.
Jane Shilling is a journalist who writes on books for the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and Daily Mail, and on television for the Evening Standard. This is her second book. She lives in Greenwich with her son.
Read by Samantha Bond
Abridged by Julian Wilkinson
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.
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