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Mavis Nicholson talks to Sarah Crompton
What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?
Hay Festival 2011,
The broadcaster has interviewed women from lumber-jills and landgirls to undercover spies and entertainers about the new freedoms, the make-do and mend, the hopes and the fears, as well as the post-war adjustments they had to make.