1. Beginnings
Beatrix Potter was brought up in Kensington but found creative inspiration in the "North Country". Read by Lindsay Duncan.
It's November 1918. A woman is looking for something in a cornfield.
This is Mrs William Heelis, n茅e Beatrix Potter. She is 52, happily married and a successful farmer.
Potter was "emotionally rooted" in the Lake District and farm life appealed to her. She had worked hard to shed the outward vestiges of her Kensington upbringing and her roots were in the "North Country".
These were the landscapes which nurtured her creative imagination.
Linda Lear鈥檚 biography of the 20th century's most-beloved children's writer and creator of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter.
Abridged in five parts by Alison Joseph
Read by Lindsay Duncan.
Producer: Kirsteen Cameron
First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in December 2006.
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