The London interview
- Title
- The London interview
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 5 Apr 1980
- Year of production
- 1980
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- Duration
- 00:49:29
- Description
- The London Interview. Margaret Powell, domestic servant and author of Below Stairs, Climbing The Stairs, and eleven other books, describes what it was like to leave her home in Hove to work in London. When her first book was published, she received a large amount of hate mail and chain letters. She describes how she tried to improve her education by attending evening classes while her sons were at university. Now she gives after dinner talks about her experiences in domestic service. Female interviewer not identified. In two parts, divided by short break in audio.
- Contributors
- Margaret Powell
- Keywords
- Authors; London; Employment; Cooks; Social class; Occupations; Domestic personnel; Servants; Cookery; Hove; Gentry; Domestic service; Margaret Powell
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