Benita Cullingford is a teacher of speech and drama and a former teacher and festival adjudicator for the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She is also a leading authority on eighteenth-century chimney sweeps and the author of the children's book Edwin and the Climbing Boys and British Chimney Sweeps: Five Centuries of Chimney Sweeping. Cullingford has written for stage, screen, and radio as well: Smile, Baby, Smile, a short film, was produced in 2013, and Pick Up, a radio play, was recently broadcast in New York. She and her husband, Pip, live in Hertfordshire, England, and have two married daughters and four grandchildren.
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“Will you tell me a story?” little Pete whispered. Edwin gazed across the rooftops. “Once upon a time,” he began, “in a faraway land, there dwelt an English man. He lived with his wife in a big house called an Embassy. They had a privileged c... SEE MORE