Cider With Rosie Audiobook (Free)

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Laurie Lee’s lyrical autobiography of his years as a child within a secluded Cotswold valley. Recorded on location at Westley Plantation and the Woolpack Inn in Gloucestershire, Cider with Rosie superstars Tim McInnerny as the narrator and Niamh Cusack as Mother. Halcyon times of flower-filled meadows, home-made wines, enthralling stories, and chapel outings had been the essence of his childhood. But there is a harsher side too, departing the protection of his mother’s bed, a death close to home, and days on the town school marred by a sadistic instructor, were all portion of developing up. As was Rosie. And after his encounter with her beneath the haywain, Laurie Lee was ‘hardly ever the same once again’.