The first play in a series of eight new plays on this theme is
The Ripening Seed
by Colette
adapted and dramatised by Penelope Mortimer
To Philippe and Vinca, life seemed an endless summer. So close as children, they had felt almost one person. But childhood can end as treacherously as summer...
(Colette is the subject of BBC1's Omnibus on 15 April and a five-part adaptation of her story Cheri begins on 19 April on BBC2)
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