by Jennifer Dawson
Adapted from the novel and produced by MICHAEL BAKEWELL Josephine is a young girl detained In a mental Institution suffering from schizophrenia. Her mother has been killed in a domestic disaster for which she believes herself to be somehow responsible, and her life at Oxford as an undergraduate has become impossible because of her lack of grip on the real world. Life is something with which she is unable to come to terms. ' I wanted the knack of existence. I did not know the rules.'
Other parts played by members of the BBC
Drama Repertory Company Music composed by TRISTRAM CARY
Third broadcast