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In this extended interview recorded prior to his death in 1997, Lee observes his 鈥渟catty and brilliant, eccentric but fascinating madcap mother鈥� struggling on the breadline to look after her large brood of children, in a time he later described as 鈥渢he end of a thousand years of village life鈥�. He also discusses his exploits during the Spanish Civil War and the interview ends with a fascinating close reading of one of his poems.

In the year of his centenary, Jessy Lee reflects on her father鈥檚 talent and her own relationship with his work. Has she ever been tempted to follow Laurie鈥檚 epic routes? Yes, she has but has only managed it in a camper van so far! She also discusses his lyricism, his facility with language and his particular deftness at conveying a sense of place - one of the qualities for which he is most revered.

Helen Mark explores the recently safeguarded 'Laurie Lee Wood' and meets the people who inhabit the 21st-Century 'Cider With Rosie' landscape. Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust had an unprecedented response to its appeal to save the plot of woodland which had once belonged to Lee but which had become too much for the author and playwright's remaining family to maintain.

In this clip from Radio 4鈥檚 Open Book series The Book I鈥檇 Never Lend, Joanna Trollope speaks of her devotion to Lee鈥檚 first memoir, a book she says she read obsessively for 15 years. For Trollope, Cider With Rosie is a chronicle of a world that was about to disappear, not only through the introduction of the motor car but also because it takes place on the eve of the Great War.