iPod Audiobook [NEW] - Cold Cream by Ferdinand Mount - M4B-128k - BBC Radio - cheops
Oliver Ford Davies reads from Ferdinand Mount's newly-published memoir, abridged by Alison Joseph.
Ferdinand Mount was born in 1939, the son of a steeplechase jockey, and brought up on Salisbury Plain. After being educated at Eton and Oxford, he made various false starts as a children's nanny, a gossip columnist, bagman to Selwyn Lloyd, and leader-writer on the doomed Daily Sketch. He later surfaced, slightly to his surprise and everyone else's, as head of Margaret Thatcher's Policy Unit. "Cold Cream" offers us an unrivalled, intimate account of life inside Number 10 during those years.
Among the beautifully turned recollections is sadness too: the loss of his grandfather, termed 'one of the Paladins of Gallipoli' by Churchill, and the unbearable slow and lonely death of his mother. "Cold Cream" is a portrait of a generation as well as a pitch-perfect anthology of experience, where every sentence is a joy to read.
"Cold Cream", published by Bloomsbury in April 2008, is a sparkling memoir that reads like a non-fictional 'A Dance to the Music of Time'.
One M4B audiobook file containing five episodes of approximately 15 minutes each.
Episode 1:
The author discovers Italy and the mysteries of cold cream.
Episode 2:
Shooting with father leads to a period of farce and tragedy.
Episode 3:
London life means meetings with the bank manager. A visit to Daylesford sets Ferdinand on the road to serious employment.
Episode 4:
The author parachutes into another job.
Episode 5:
The author relives a dramatic moment in political history before returning to pick damsons.
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Type : MPEG-4 AAC m4b [DRM FREE]
Bitrate : 128
Mode : stereo
Frequency : 48000 Hz
Encoder : AAC [Audiobook Builder 1.08]
Contains: Album Art, ID Tag [iTunes]
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
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