Where did great authors of the past live and work? How much was their work affected by the places in which they lived?
The last of six programmes about writers and their world. Flora Thompson, whose trilogy "Lark Rise to Candleford" is regarded by many as a masterpiece, grew up in North Oxfordshire in the 1880s with little money and few prospects. Hugh Casson, the newly elected President of the Royal Academy, has for many years had a particular love for Flora Thompson's work and her unique account of life in a country hamlet at the turn of the century.
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