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Lately for Monday 16 April 2018

  • Lately with Karyn Hay

    life and society

    10:15 PM.Syria is top of the news agenda. The Washington Post's Moscow correspondent, AMY Ferris-Rotman will join us from London... The Taite Music Prize is being held tomorrow night. Alex Behan, whose hosting… Read more Audio

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  • The world watches Syria

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Karen McMillan from NZ Booklovers has been reading Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce

There's a chance to win a copy here.

Set in London during the Blitz, Emmeline Lake and her best friend Bunty are trying to remain cheerful, despite the nightly bombings and disruption of life as they once knew it. Emmy would love to be a war correspondent, so when she sees an advertisement for a job in the newspaper for a prestigious publisher of newspapers, she jumps at the chance to achieve her dream. But in her haste to impress at the interview, she doesn’t ask any questions. She doesn’t realise that she is committing herself to something quite different – typing letters for Henrietta Bird, the agony aunt for a failing women’s magazine, which is part of the publisher’s business, but far, far removed from the prestigious London Evening Chronicle that Emmy wanted to work for.

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