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The Monday Play: Down the Hill

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Rose Tremain
with Sylvia Coleridge, Margot Boyd and Eric Allan

A rich elderly widow lives in a large house at the top of the hill; a poor elderly widow lives in a cottage at its foot. The distance that divides them is not great, but there are certain things that keep them apart. The incident in the orchard, for instance...

(Repeated: Sun 2.30 pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Rose Tremain
Piano:
Mary Nash
Director:
John Tydeman
Mrs Rivers:
Sylvia Coleridge
Adele, her companion:
Petra Davies
Mrs Opie:
Margot Boyd
Rickie Opie, her son:
Eric Allan
Male nurse:
Philip Sully
Patient:
Leonard Fenton
Source: Radio Times

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