Book of the Week - The Tent, the Bucket and Me
Emma Kennedy reads her account of family camping holidays from her childhood in the 1970s
Book of the Week - The Tent, the Bucket and Me - Episode 1
In 1970, three-year-old Emma and her parents, Brenda and Tony, took their first family holiday. It featured a tent, a bucket and an awful lot of Welsh rain.
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Book of the Week - The Tent, the Bucket and Me - Episode 2
1972 was the year of the trip to Hadrian's Wall and rather a lot of cross-border matrimonial raids, all of which are doomed to end in tears.
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Book of the Week - The Tent, the Bucket and Me - Episode 3
With Britain now in the European Union, the matriarch of the Kennedy family decides that the time has come for the annual family holiday to be taken abroad.
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Book of the Week - The Tent, the Bucket and Me - Episode 4
The family take a holiday in France - without the tent. But the delights of being under a proper roof are soon replaced by a fear of nocturnal noises and strangers in the night.
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Book of the Week - The Tent, the Bucket and Me - Episode 5
Emma, now 13, takes her final family camping trip to France. The perils of sunburn are nothing compared to the public humiliation that follows.
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