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Listen to Molly Molly recalls the air raid attack on her school during WW2

Listen to Len Len 'Spider' Austin describes the origin of his and his father's clown names

Molly's oral history was commissioned for 'Men Remade' exhibition at Wandsworth Museum, supported by the Wellcome Trust and Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Extracts were made for the listening post, the full recording is archived. Molly says:

'From the moment you stepped through the door I felt absolutely relaxed with you. You are not pushy; you just let the person say what they want to say. I mean that, I really do. I trusted you, I could talk about difficult things, I really enjoyed doing this recording.'

Monica, aged 50, from Wiltshire commissioned an oral life history for herself and her brothers, of her immigrant mother who came to London in 1954. She says:

'I am absolutely delighted with the beautifully bound transcripts incorporating our family photographs and the matching bound 6 CDs in a slip cover. The quality is even better than I expected. It is something of ma we've got forever. Being immigrants we've lost our sense of culture and this makes it very real. It has helped us connect more with our mother and explains so much about who she is.'

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