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15 Minute Drama

Rosamond Lehmann - Dusty Answer

Episode 4

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Rosamund Lehmann's first novel Dusty Answer records the education of Judith Earle, the only child of an academic father and socialite mother. Judith grew up in the seclusion of a large riverside house in the Thames Valley. The house next door is occupied from time to time by the Fyfe family whose children - cousins Charlie, Roddy, Julian and Martin drift in and out of her life.

Part Four Judith is invited to a picnic with Julian and Martin, and Roddy takes her for a trip in a canoe. Romance rears its head ...but which of the cousins is it to be ?

DUSTY ANSWER by Rosamund Lehmann dramatised by Lavinia Greenlaw

Narrator ...................................Julia Hills

Judith......................................Rosina Carbone
Roddy......................................Brodie Ross
Martin......................................Oliver Gomm
Julian.......................................Tom Ferguson
Mamma ...................................Melissa Jane Sinden

Directed by Susan Roberts. Show less

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