Auditions: Cider with Rosie

Cider with Rosie is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, when the rural traditions of past centuries were being swept aside in the path of twentieth-century progress, Laurie Lee depicts a world that is both immediate and real but belongs to a now-distant past.