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Afternoon Reading - The Diaries of Edith Appleton - Episode 3

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Series of readings featuring extracts from the diaries of Edith Appleton, a nurse working close to the front line during the First World War. It is 1918 and Edie is based at a grand hotel which has been turned into a military hospital, on the cliffs above Treport. Anticipation is growing that the war could be coming to an end. Read by Rachel Atkins A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.