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The Family Tree

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1/5. Carole Cadwalladr's novel about family and free will, adapted for radio by Jennifer Howarth.
Popular-culture researcher Rebecca Monroe looks back over the lives of her mother and her grandmother and finds mistaken marriages, untimely deaths and dubiously fathered children.
(Repeated from 10.45am)

Contributors

Author:
Carole Cadwalladr
Adapted by:
Jennifer Howarth
Producer/Director:
Kate McAll
Rebecca:
Siriol Jenkins
Doreen:
Penny Downie
Nanna Alicia:
Colette O'Neill
Tiffany:
Heidi Woodrow
James:
Richard Mitchley
Suzanne:
Alex Alderton
Grandpa Herbert:
Howell Evans
Kenneth:
Richard Nichols
Cathy:
Claire Cage
Cedric:
Burt Caesar
Peter:
Dick Bradnum
Source: Radio Times

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