Episodes
| Episode | First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | 20240428 | Charlotte Keatley's powerful, poignant and bittersweet drama focuses on four generations of women as they confront the most significant moments of their lives. A kaleidoscopic time structure spanning from 1923 to 1987 builds the chronology of one family in which we witness how profoundly the choices of one generation affect the potential of the next. The women balance the complexities of motherhood, education, career and self-expression and a decision is made that will affect all their lives irrevocably. DORIS..... Lesley Nicol MARGARET.....Siobhan Finneran JACKIE.....Cecilia Appiah ROSIE.....Bebe Massey CHILD DORIS.....Matilda Kent CHILD MARGARET.....Isla Pritchard CHILD JACKIE.....Mimi-Raie Mhlanga Pianist Adam Hutchins Sound Design by Sharon Hughes Production Co-ordinator Pippa Day Written by Charlotte Keatley Produced and Directed by Nadia Molinari A BBC Studios Audio Production This production is dedicated to the memory of Wyllie Longmore Charlotte Keatley's award winning, landmark play. Classic drama from BBC Radio 4 Entanglement and estrangement bind together four generations of one working class family against a backdrop of significant social change of the 20th Century. |
| 02 | 20240505 | Charlotte Keatley adapts her powerful, poignant and bittersweet stage play for audio. The drama traces four generations of women against the backdrop of the huge social changes of the twentieth century. The four women revisit Doris's snowbound house following Jack's death; as they pack up the objects and clothes of 70 years of family life memories haunt and buried secrets threaten to surface. DORIS..... Lesley Nicol MARGARET.....Siobhan Finneran JACKIE.....Cecilia Appiah ROSIE.....Bebe Massey CHILD DORIS.....Matilda Kent CHILD MARGARET.....Isla Pritchard CHILD JACKIE.....Mimi-Raie Mhlanga Pianist Adam Hutchins Sound Design by Sharon Hughes Production Co-ordinator Pippa Day Written by Charlotte Keatley Produced and Directed by Nadia Molinari A BBC Studios Audio Production This production is dedicated to the memory of Wyllie Longmore. Charlotte Keatley's landmark drama tracing four generations of women. Classic drama from BBC Radio 4 Entanglement and estrangement bind together four generations of women in Charlotte Keatley's award-winning play. |