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Radio Theatre 81: House Wives

on BBC Radio 3

by LOUISE PAGE
A house wife is what Clementine Houlden would like to be, only the house in question is the House of Commons. She wants to enter Parliament as a Labour MP, but her ambition is nothing without popular support. Neither her husband, Stephen, nor her mother, Dot, give encouragement and she has to struggle alone as her granny Violet, an ex-suffragette, once had to do.
JULIET STEVENSON
Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham
(House Wives has been performed at the Derby Playhouse, directed by Vanessa Whitburn, as-part of the BBC/Arts Council scheme to commission new work for the radio and theatre)

Contributors

Unknown:
Clementine Houlden
Directed By:
Vanessa Whitburn
Directed By:
Vanessa Whitburn
Jessica:
Deirdre Doone
Violet:
Kathleen Helme
Dot:
Pauline Letts
Stephen:
Mark Brignal
Bill:
Derek Watson
David:
Richard Derrington
Returning officer:
Stephen Hancock

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