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The Afternoon Play: The One before the Last

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Katherine Parker
with Colin Firth as Rupert Brooke and Emma Piper as Ka Cox

The poet Rupert Brooke was born on 3 August 1887, and died of an illness at the tragically early age of 27 during the First World War. One of the most beautiful men in England, he had many admirers, but his emotional life was far from trouble free. While up at Cambridge, he met Ka Cox - a large, ungainly, matronly woman with whom he had a most complex love affair.
(Stereo) (R)

Contributors

Writer:
Katherine Parker
Director:
Cherry Cookson
Rupert Brooke:
Colin Firth
Ka Cox:
Emma Piper
Mrs Brooke:
Janet Henfrey
Francis Cornford:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Frances Cornford:
Susie Brann
Noel:
Deborah Makepeace
Young man:
Jonathan Tafler
Statesman:
Peter Howell
Source: Radio Times

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