Broadcast: 7th October 1947

Starring: Frank Readick, Charlotte Holland, Rosemary Rice, Edwin Bruce

Added: May 27 2006

There’s A Tree That Grows In Brooklyn was written by Betty Smith published in 1943, about the people and times of the poverty stricken tenement area where the tree survived. It is a novel of childhood about a girl named Francie Nolan and her family, which became one of the best known and best loved books of the time.