Beggar’s Fiddle – Freda Lingstrom

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Condition: Good, no dust jacket. spots on cover and page out –Frontispiece. probably blank

I cannot find any information about this book or another one on internet. Only on googleBooks that it was published in 1948. This is the only one online it seems; as it is out of print.

Price commensurate on condition. I will keep on looking for another one or more info and will update when I find something. If anybody can help; I will appreciate it immensely.

see images for info of inside of book.

• This is Norway (1933)
• The Seventh Sister (1938)
• A Flower in his Hand (1939)
• Beggar’s Fiddle (1948)
• Nicolas and Antoinette (1949)
• The Seeing Eye. How to look at natural and man-made things with pleasure and understanding (1960)*
• Richard’s Wheel (1961)
• Lingstrom was an artist, illustrator and author. She provided artwork for On The Line, a guide to LNER Trains, in 1928, and maps for Norwegian travel guide This Is Norway in 1933. Her first novel The Seventh Sister was published in 1938.Between 1945 and 1949 Lingstrom enjoyed a formative spell on the editorial team of ‘improving’ children’s periodical Junior, a miscellaneous “collection of stories, articles and pictures for the junior members of the family”. George Orwell and Maria Bird were among its contributors.This posting led her to become Assistant Head of BBC Schools Broadcasting, and while at BBC Radio she created storytelling slot Listen With Mother in 1950. It was not long before she received her first television commission – in July 1950 she created Andy Pandy (BBC 1950-59; 1970) at the behest of Mary Adams, working with Maria Bird under the name Westerham Arts Films. The programme was an experimental offshoot of Women’s Programmes that proved popular with mums and toddlers.Lingstrom was appointed Head of BBC Children’s Television in May 1951, succeeding two interim figures responsible for a framework of sorts, Richmond Postgate (early 1950) and Cecil Madden (September 1950 – April 1951). On her appointment she oversaw seven department Producers – Dorothea Brooking, Pamela Brown, Naomi Capon, Joy Harington, Peter Thompson, Rex Tucker and Michael Westmore.