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🗓️ 20 September 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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0:32.0 | a little happier. I love reading memoirs and autobiographies and a while back I read the 1991 |
0:39.8 | autobiography Will This Do, the first 50 years of Auburn Wall. Auburn Wall was a prolific |
0:47.6 | journalist and novelist and he was also the oldest son of the acclaimed novelist Evelyn Wall, |
0:53.2 | best known for his novels, Brides had revisited and the trilogy sort of honor. |
0:58.6 | Evelyn Wall was also a very difficult person. Of his father, Auburn Wall writes that his chief |
1:06.4 | defect was his greed and he writes about an incident, one involving bananas, that took place just after |
1:13.4 | the end of World War II. Here's a clip from a British news reel announcing a new initiative related |
1:21.7 | to bananas. A committee of banana tasteers make a doxied test |
1:52.2 | Isn't it lovely? The |
1:55.6 | and the finest quality on their very nice too. This first shipment of five million goes to |
2:01.9 | children under 18 living in southwest England. For the not so lucky parts of the country, |
2:06.7 | there's news that other boats are on the way. It won't be long now before we can all say ever banana. |
2:14.8 | Here's what Auburn Wall writes about that shipment in 1946. |
2:18.6 | On one occasion, just after the war, the first consignment of bananas reached Britain. Neither I, |
2:25.9 | my sister Teresa, nor my sister Margaret had ever eaten a banana throughout the war when they |
2:31.2 | were unprocurable, but we had heard all about them as the most delicious taste in the world. |
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