{"id":2499,"date":"2020-05-04T19:55:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T19:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2020-05-04T19:56:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T19:56:24","slug":"lucy-fleming-reads-posting-letter-on-bbc-radio-4s-today-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2020\/05\/04\/lucy-fleming-reads-posting-letter-on-bbc-radio-4s-today-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Fleming reads ‘Posting’ letter on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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LUCY FLEMING READ an extract from a letter that her mother Celia Johnson sent to her father Peter Fleming just after VE Day on BBC Radio 4’s flagship news progamme Today<\/em> this morning (4 May 2020).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Today <\/em>show is featuring a number of different readings this week, as part of the wider BBC shedule of event to mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fleming appears towards the end of the programme (at around the 2hrs 50m mark). Listeners in the UK can stream or download the programme<\/a> from the BBC Sounds service. Today’s edition will be available to access until 3 June 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fleming and her husband Simon Williams have been touring the spoken-word production of Posting Letters to the Moon<\/em>, which is based on the wartime correspondence between her mother and father. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An additional run of planned performances<\/a> of Posting Letters to the Moon <\/em>has had to be postponed as a result of the current Covid-19 closedown, but it is hoped that dates later in the year will go ahead as scheduled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LUCY FLEMING READ an extract from a letter that her mother Celia Johnson sent to her father Peter Fleming just after VE Day on BBC Radio 4’s flagship news progamme Today this morning (4 May 2020). The Today show is featuring a number of different readings this week, as part of the wider BBC shedule … Continue reading “Lucy Fleming reads ‘Posting’ letter on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-and-crew","category-cast-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9n8B4-Ej","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2506,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions\/2506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}