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Eccentric explorer Gum collects fossils on his travels - and three orphans whose names begin with 'P'. Read by Harriet Walter.

1930s London. Eccentric explorer Gum collects fossils on his travels - and three orphans whose names begin with 'P'.

It is a story of three children on the stage....the Fossil sisters.

Noel Streatfeild's novel, first published in 1936.

Omnibus of the first five of ten episodes abridged by Hilary Brand.

Read by Harriet Walter.

Producer: Caroline Raphael

First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in March 1992.

1 hour, 15 minutes

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Sat 5 Sep 202607:30
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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