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The Loved One

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Evelyn Waugh 's novel adapted in three parts. 1: Hollywood, 1947. Failed poet and screenwriter
Dennis Barlow has disgraced the English community by taking a job in a pets' cemetery. He is given the chance to redeem himself by arranging a colleague's funeral, but love rather than redemption looms at the Whispering Glades Funeral Home.
Dramatised by Bill Matthews
Producer Ussa Evans. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Evelyn Waugh
Unknown:
Dennis Barlow
Dramatised By:
Bill Matthews
Producer:
Ussa Evans.
Dennis Barlow:
Rupert Graves
Aimee Thanatogenous:
Miranda Richardson
Sir Ambrose Abercrombie:
Donald Pickering
Sir Francis Hinsley:
Ronald Fraser
Baumbein:
Bob Sessions
Mrs Heinkel:
Lorelei King
Mr Heinkel:
Garrick Hagon
MrSchultZ:
Graham Hoadly
Carrie:
Elizabeth Mansfield
Erikson:
Simon Treves
Schindler:
David Bannerman
Source: Radio Times

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