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My Dear Bessie: A Love Story in Letters: A BBC Radio 4 Adaptation by Bessie Moore, Chris Baker
chelseamh98's review
5.0
Such a beautiful heartfelt love story that made me cry just goes on to prove that love is worth waiting and fighting for and can be found almost anywhere even during a war. so personal and deeply moving. It was so beautifully and entertainingly read. I have a feeling I will come back to listen time and time again
mobina7's review
1.0
I know real people wrote these letters,but i found it creepy than romantic!
I mean how some one tells a girl whom he never met: Thinking about you make me hot at nights!!!!!!
.نامه ها اذیت کننده و حتی کمی چندش آور بودن تا رمانتیک
I mean how some one tells a girl whom he never met: Thinking about you make me hot at nights!!!!!!
.نامه ها اذیت کننده و حتی کمی چندش آور بودن تا رمانتیک
lucyhargrave's review against another edition
5.0
I loved reading My Dear Bessie for the romance it contained, for the way it humanised the War experience and for the glimpse it offers the reader into the past. When Chris and Bessie first start corresponding they are merely friends and yet it was Bessie’s first crucial reply that would change both of their lives forever.
‘I was quite OK before I got your first letter. I was rational, objective. But now that you have my ear – I must give you my heart as well! No doubt it is wrong, certainly it is indiscreet, to blurt out such things when the future laughs that only presents conditions make me like this. But I am like this.’
Due to practical reasons explained in the books introduction the majority of the letters in My Dear Bessie are written by Chris and yet the reader is able to gain such an insight in to both Chris and Bessie’s personalities. Both are strong Labour supporters; Chris leans heavily towards Socialism even during the Greece occupation and Bessie helps Labour with the 1945 election. They are pragmatic yet romantic, youthful yet mature, unconventional yet traditional...
Full review can be found on at www.forgettheclassicsireadromance.blogspot.co.uk
‘I was quite OK before I got your first letter. I was rational, objective. But now that you have my ear – I must give you my heart as well! No doubt it is wrong, certainly it is indiscreet, to blurt out such things when the future laughs that only presents conditions make me like this. But I am like this.’
Due to practical reasons explained in the books introduction the majority of the letters in My Dear Bessie are written by Chris and yet the reader is able to gain such an insight in to both Chris and Bessie’s personalities. Both are strong Labour supporters; Chris leans heavily towards Socialism even during the Greece occupation and Bessie helps Labour with the 1945 election. They are pragmatic yet romantic, youthful yet mature, unconventional yet traditional...
Full review can be found on at www.forgettheclassicsireadromance.blogspot.co.uk
lnatal's review against another edition
4.0
From BBC Radio 4 - Drama:
A love story in letters played out against the backdrop of the Second World War between Chris Barker, a solider in North Africa, and Bessie Moore, a Morse code interpreter at the Foreign Office in London.
Compiled by Simon Garfield and adapted for radio by Sara Davies
Produced by Gemma Jenkins
A small blue box opened in 2008 revealed a wartime world of love, longing and frustration.
On September 5th 1943, Chris Barker, a Signalman stationed near Tobruk decided to write to a former work colleague, Bessie Moore, back in London. The unexpected warmth of Bessie's reply changed their lives forever.
Chris and Bessie's love letters first appeared in Simon Garfield's book To The Letter, they have toured literary festivals as part of Letters Live before getting their own book, My Dear Bessie, published this year on Valentine's Day.
A love story in letters played out against the backdrop of the Second World War between Chris Barker, a solider in North Africa, and Bessie Moore, a Morse code interpreter at the Foreign Office in London.
Compiled by Simon Garfield and adapted for radio by Sara Davies
Produced by Gemma Jenkins
A small blue box opened in 2008 revealed a wartime world of love, longing and frustration.
On September 5th 1943, Chris Barker, a Signalman stationed near Tobruk decided to write to a former work colleague, Bessie Moore, back in London. The unexpected warmth of Bessie's reply changed their lives forever.
Chris and Bessie's love letters first appeared in Simon Garfield's book To The Letter, they have toured literary festivals as part of Letters Live before getting their own book, My Dear Bessie, published this year on Valentine's Day.
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