Opening Lines: Lark Rise to Candleford (Part 1)

Series 6, episode 0

Part one of two. John Yorke unpacks Flora Thompson's stories, beginning by analysing its mixture of fiction, social history and autobiography, and learning more about the author's life as a woman who left school at 14 after a rudimentary education, and went on to write an instant bestseller

Cast (unconfirmed)

John Yorke