Christopher Cape: Of Brewers and Holy Orders
24 Jan, 2021 10:40 PM
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Wanganui Midweek
The Cape family, Peter, Barbara, Stephanie and Christopher, arrived in England on April 29, 1962 on board the MS Oranje.
My father Peter, a television producer with the fledgling NZBC, trained with the BBC in London for two months.
The Imperial Relations Trust had granted the trip funding, with a brief to study the history, lifestyles, arts and crafts of British society and report back. We found accommodation, a flat in Stoke Newington, and a car was purchased – a 1948 Ford Anglia in good condition.
On July 18 we began our 9000km journey through the British Isles, from Lands End to John O Groats. There were four of us and nine pet mice. For the record the car was MPJ , I was Kit , my sister Fani , my mother Barbara was B and our original two mice were Moopid and Stoopid . I pick up my father s diary account after socialising and folk singing the previous evening with
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