Joan London
speaker
7 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2021
last heard Jan 2021
Joan London’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Frank Gold is a 13-year-old boy who has caught polio.
He's an immigrant boy.
He's come with his parents from Hungary.
He's Jewish and he is making his way into this new culture and then he's blighted with polio.
But in
In his resilient way, perhaps, you know, as a refugee, he makes the best of the situation and quickly he's learnt, and he does this in the Golden Age convalescent home, to make friends with the cook and get to know all the people he should know.
And he falls in love with a fellow patient called Elsa.
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