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2. I Capture The Castle

Episode 2 of 3

Grace Dent rifles through the 成人快手 Radio archives to celebrate the awkward, emotional, and unfortunately inevitable adolescent experience.

Grace Dent locks herself in her teenage bedroom and rifles through the 成人快手 Radio archives to celebrate the awkward, emotional, and unfortunately inevitable adolescent experience.

She reminisces about the heartbreak and arguments that were an everyday part of her own teenage years growing up in Carlisle in the 1970s.

In the second of three episodes, Grace dips into the 成人快手 Archives and come up with one of her favourite depictions of adolescence:

* 'I CAPTURE THE CASTLE'

The first part of Jane Rodgers' adaptation of Dodie Smith's classic novel, starring Holliday Grainger.

In the ruins of medieval castle, deep in rural 1930's Suffolk, funny, intelligent 17 year old Cassandra Mortmain attempts to capture her family's life in a journal.

First heard on 成人快手 Radio 4 in 2015.

Producer: Jessica Treen

Made for 成人快手 Radio 4 Extra. First broadcast in October 2017.

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