Vera Redden - Life and Love 'tween the North and South

This is a wonderful recorded conversation with Vera Redden, around her book "Life and Love 'tween the North and South". The inspiration for the book was the discovery by Vera in her attic of a suitcase containing a host of letters exchanged between her mother (Mona) and her father (Jimmy) in the 1930s. Jimmy was a miner here in the North East and Mona was in service in London for a few years - and they wrote to each other nearly every day. The conversation centres around Vera's motivation and inspiration for creating the book, but it also gives us a glimpse of life in England in the 1930s. But, it's all underpinned by a real love story.

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Family recorded conversations, in which loved ones tell and preserve their story for generations to come.