A series of five programmes on people who have played an important. sometimes decisive part in the life and work of a famous man or woman. 5: Dearest Mongoose by DOROTHY BAKER and narrated by David March
On 29 May 1912 Virginia Stephen accepted the proposal of ' the Jew with the trembling hands'. Leonard Woolf. They were apparently incompatible: she admitted to frigidity. and he to lust. But the marriage was a record of intelligence, hard work, immense achievement and great mutual love. Without the devoted care of her dearest mongoose'. Virginia Woolf would not have been able to fulfil her considerable genius.
Producer DAVID SPENSER