Pepita's Daughter

The extraordinary story of Victoria Sackville is more tempestuous and exotic than the better known story of her daughter, Vita Sackville-West.

Victoria was the illegitimate child of Lord Sackville of Knole and a Spanish dancer Pepita, who died when Victoria was still a young girl. Their daughter grew up to be a beautiful and extrovert woman who, because of her origins, could never be quite respectable and who could never quite decide whether she wished to be so.

Drama by Martyn Wade

Victoria ..................................... Diana Quick

Vita .............................................. Alice Hart

Lionel Sackville-West ........... Mark Straker

Lord Sackville .......................... Geoffrey Whitehead

Sir John Murray Scott ........... Crawford Logan

Young Vita ................................. Maisie Cowell

F E Smith ................................... Kim Wall

Director: Tracey Neale

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2006.

The story of Victoria Sackville, mother of Vita, who lived on the edge of high society.

Victoria Sackville was born abroad, outside respectable society to an English Lord and Spanish dancer. Starring Diana Quick.