Heidi
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  • Published: 15 March 2017
  • ISBN: 9781408400661
  • Imprint: BBC CD
  • Format: Audio CD
  • Length: 1 hr 47 min
  • Narrators: Ciara Janson, Richard Johnson
  • RRP: $24.99

Heidi

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Paperback
15 Dec 2020
Paperback
4 May 2009
Hardback
19 Nov 2014
EBook
6 Sep 2012
EBook
4 May 2009
Audiobook
6 Jun 2019
Audiobook
25 Mar 2009
Audiobook
2 Jul 2008
Audio CD
21 May 2019
Audio CD
15 Mar 2017
Paperback
5 Mar 2019
Paperback
3 Sep 2012
Hardback
7 Mar 2019
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Ciara Jansen stars in a BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation of the classic children's story.

Ciara Jansen stars in a BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation of the classic children's story. 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. But her happiness is short-lived when she is sent to stay with a rich city family as a companion for the sick Clara. Although she becomes fond of the older girl, Heidi is terribly homesick. Will she ever be able to return to the Alps and the happiness she once knew with her friends? Johanna Spyri's touching story of the adventures of a young Swiss girl is one of the most popular children's stories ever written. 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 dramatisation.
  • Published: 15 March 2017
  • ISBN: 9781408400661
  • Imprint: BBC CD
  • Format: Audio CD
  • Length: 1 hr 47 min
  • Narrators: Ciara Janson, Richard Johnson
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Johanna Spyri

Johanna Spyri (1827–1901) was born Johanna Heusser at Hirzel, a pretty Swiss village about seven miles from Zurich, the daughter of a doctor, and one of a large family of children. She had a happy childhood, and married in 1852 a young lawyer friend of her brother's, Bernhard Spyri, moving to Zurich. The couple had one son, also called Bernhard, who never enjoyed good health, and his mother began making up stories to tell him. She first published one of these in 1870 to raise money for soldiers wounded in the Franco-Prussian War. Heidi was published in 1880, inspired by Johanna's love for the Alpine countryside of her youth, and was a great success from the start. In later life, after the death of her husband and son, Johanna took a young niece to live with her and devoted herself to writing and charity work. She published more than fifty books for adults and children, but none so famous as Heidi.

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