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Book at Bedtime - Anybody Can Do Anything

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Debora Weston reads Betty MacDonald's comic novel about life as a single mother in America during the Great Depression

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Book at Bedtime - Anybody Can Do Anything - Episode 1

Mary is certain that anybody can do anything, especially her sister Betty, who leaves her husband and his chicken ranch and returns to her warm and noisy family in Seattle.

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Book at Bedtime - Anybody Can Do Anything - Episode 10

Debora Weston reads Betty MacDonald's comic novel about life during the Great Depression. Mary tells a publisher about Betty's wonderful new book, which is news to Betty, too.

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Book at Bedtime - Anybody Can Do Anything - Episode 2

Debora Weston reads Betty MacDonald's novel about life during the Great Depression. Mary gets Betty a job as a shorthand typist, but she does not know shorthand and cannot type.

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Book at Bedtime - Anybody Can Do Anything - Episode 3

Debora Weston reads Betty MacDonald's comic novel about life during the Great Depression. Mary sets up a string of disastrous dates for Betty.

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Book at Bedtime - Anybody Can Do Anything - Episode 4

Betty MacDonald's comic novel about life during the Great Depression. February 1933 is a terrible time to be out of a job. Even Mary has a hard time lining up interviews for Betty.

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Book at Bedtime - Anybody Can Do Anything - Episode 5

Unlike Mary, Betty is hopeless at selling advertising, so she gets work as a photographic tinter, a fur coat model-cum-book-keeper and secretary to a mobster.

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Book at Bedtime - Anybody Can Do Anything - Episode 6

Betty MacDonald's comic novel about life during the Great Depression. During the worst of the Great Depression, Betty and her sisters must find cheap ways to have fun.

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Book at Bedtime - Anybody Can Do Anything - Episode 7

Betty MacDonald's comic novel about life during the Great Depression. Betty discovers that the Friendly Loan Company is not all that friendly when she cannot keep up her payments.

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Book at Bedtime - Anybody Can Do Anything - Episode 8

Betty MacDonald's comic novel about life during the Great Depression. Mary gets Mother an unlikely job as a radio dramatist and Betty has to work with the sinister Dorita.

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Book at Bedtime - Anybody Can Do Anything - Episode 9

Debora Weston reads Betty MacDonald's comic novel about life during the Great Depression. Betty resolves never to go to another office party.

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