How Dolly Got Rotherham Reading, Sarfraz Manzoor
How Dolly Got Rotherham Reading, Sarfraz Manzoor
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How Dolly Got Rotherham Reading

Author: Sarfraz Manzoor

Narrator: Sarfraz Manzoor

Unabridged: 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/2012


Synopsis

Dolly Parton grew up in poverty in rural East Tennessee, where children only attended school if there was no work to be done on the farm. She came to regard literacy skills as a passport to a better life and in 1995 she launched the 'Imagination Library'. All local children were sent a book a month, from birth to age 5. In 2007, she brought the project to Britain, starting in Rotherham. But what happened next? Travelling to Dollywood for an Imagination Library conference, Sarfraz Manzoor meets people from all over the world who have signed up for the project, and finds that Dolly's influence is global. He talks to Dolly about her life and work, speaks to those who knew her as a child and explores the motivations for this charitable work she undertakes with such passion. It is a journey to the glamorous heart of country music, but one which reveals much more about one of the world's best-loved country singers.

About Sarfraz Manzoor

Sarfraz Manzoor is a journalist, author and broadcaster. He has written and presented documentaries for BBC radio and television, and is a regular columnist for the Guardian, Sunday Times Magazine and Times. His first book, Greetings from Bury Park, was published to critical acclaim. In 2019, it was adapted for the big screen and released around the world under the name Blinded by the Light.He lives in London and is married with two children and a cat called Socks.


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