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Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room (Omnibus)

Episode 1

Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes

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

In her squalid L-shaped bedsit, Jane has to overcome both her own prejudices and those of 1950s society against her.

Lynne Reid Banks' groundbreaking story of middle-class Jane, pregnant and unmarried, has remained in print ever since it was first published in 1960.

Omnibus of the first five of ten episodes dramatised by Juliet Ace.

Jane …… Lynne Seymour
Dr Graham …… Richard Mitchley
Mavis …… Marie Gordon-Price
Doris …… Nickie Rainsford
Father …… Bill Wallis
James …… Simon Armstrong
Dr Maxwell …… John Rowe
Jane 2 …… Rachel Atkins
John …… Trevor Laird
Toby …… John McAndrew
Boss …… Dave Bond
Malcolm …… Robert Bowman

Producer: Alison Hindell.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2004. Show less

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