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The Blue Dress by WILLIAM TREVOR with David Burke and Elizabeth Proud
Terris is a middle-aged journalist with an obsession for the truth. He can never accept the surface appearance of things; and when he meets the youthful Dorothea and falls in love, there is something about her and her perfect-seeming, oh-so-English county family which nags at him. Just as the desire for truth always nags at him....
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN
(First broadcast on Radio 3) Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
William Trevor
Unknown:
David Burke
Unknown:
Elizabeth Proud
Directed By:
John Tydeman
Terris:
David Burke
Dr Lysarth:
Malcolm Hayes
Mrs Lysarth:
Pauline Letts
Dorothea, their daughter:
Elizabeth Proud
Their twin sons Jonathan...........:
Stephen Garlick
Adam:
David Timson
Agnes Kemp:
Susan Sheridan
Source: Radio Times

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