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7. Making Ends Meet
Episode 7 of 10
Betty discovers that the friendly loan company isn't so friendly when she can't keep up her payments. Read by Debora Weston.
Betty discovers that the friendly loan company isn't all that friendly when she can't keep up her payments.
Plus memories of the clothes "problem".
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.
Last on
Wed 4 Mar 202603:30
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