A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Laurie Lee’s lyrical autobiography of his years as a child in a secluded Cotswold valley. Documented on area at Westley Plantation and the Woolpack Inn in Gloucestershire, Cider with Rosie celebrities Tim McInnerny as the narrator and Niamh Cusack as Mother. Halcyon times of flower-filled meadows, home-made wines, enthralling stories, and church outings were the essence of his youth. But there was a harsher part too, leaving the protection of his mother’s bed, a death close to home, and days in the community school marred with a sadistic teacher, were all section of developing up. As was Rosie. And after his encounter with her beneath the haywain, Laurie Lee was ‘under no circumstances the same again’.