WAAF veteran publishes diaries of WWII service [audio 8min]

Joan Rice -- mother of Sir Tim Rice -- says her ambitions at age 20 were not those of her 1930s contemporaries: she wanted to write and to travel, to experience adventure. So when World War II was declared she left her typing job and enrolled immediately in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. She tells presenter Jenni Murray about her newly-published diaries, Sand in My Shoes: War-time Diaries of a WAAF (Harper Press), which give us a glimpse into her world of bombing raids, an exciting posting to Egypt, dashing airmen, and the highs and lows of wartime love.