Heidi (BBC Children's Classics)

Johanna Spyri began writing in 1871 and wrote many stories which quickly became very popular. Her husband and son both died tragically in 1884, but Johanna consoled herself with charity work and writing, as well as looking after her orphaned niece. She died in her Swiss village home in 1903.

1 hr 47 mins.. Although she becomes fond of the older girl, Heidi is terribly homesick. But her happiness is short-lived when she is sent to stay with a rich city family as a companion for the sick Clara. When Heidi, a lively orphan girl, goes to live with her grandfather in a little hut high in the Alps, she soon learns to live in perfect harmony with her surroundings, leading a carefree life with her constant companion, Peter, a young goatherd. Heidi’s pleasure in the beauty of the Swiss mountains and her rich relationships with her friends and family are perfectly evoked in this warm and lively full-cast radio dramatization.2 CDs. Will she ever be abl

 • "Many a childhood vision of the Alps was founded on the nineteenth-century Swiss classic." --Guardian