Edwina Currie: A Ferry Across the Mersey
Edwina Currie returns to the Mersey, where she once took part in a schoolgirl ritual.
The Essay · BBC Radio 3
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Show Notes
To celebrate the 70th anniversary of Radio 3, the network invited five writers with whom it shares a birthday, also turning 70 this year, on a birthday outing. Our contributors chose to visit places that have some personal significance for them where they could look back and reflect on their feelings in this special birthday year.
Liverpool-born novelist and former politician Edwina Currie returns to her native city for a ferry ride across the River Mersey where, over 50 years ago, in an end of school ritual, she and her peers threw their hated green school berets into the river.
Essayist and reader: Edwina Currie Producer: Simon Richardson.