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Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls

2. Meeting Lyon

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 7Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

The 1960s best-seller by Jacqueline Susann. Three beautiful young women become best friends as they carve out careers in the entertainment industry.

Anne Welles has received a marriage proposal from one of the richest men in New York but is she in love with 'fiancé' Allen? Then, she has to find the firm's new partner Lyon Burke an apartment. He asks her to take him on a guided tour of the flat and then, by way of saying thank you, buys her lunch....

Anne Welles ...Madeleine Potter
Neely O'Hara ...Barbara Barnes
Henry Bellamy ...Stuart Milligan
Lyon Burke ...Jamie Glover
Allen Cooper... Walter Lewis
Gino Cooper... Nathan Osgood
Miss Steinberg Liza Ross

Producer Claire Grove

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2005. Show less

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