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2. The Job Market
Episode 2 of 10
Mary gets hers sister Betty a job as a shorthand typist, but the trouble is she can't write in shorthand nor type! Read by Debora Weston.
Mary gets Betty a job as a shorthand typist.
The trouble is she doesn't know shorthand and can't type!
Betty MacDonald’s hilarious account of survival during the USA's Great Depression back in Seattle, under the wing of her sister Mary.
Abridged by Jennifer Howarth.
Read by Debora Weston.
Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2009.
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