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The House in France

Episode 5

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Written by Gully Wells.

Abridged by Jane Marshall. It is 1969, the Summer of Love, and Gully is 19 and keen to shed her studious image before going up to Oxford. Then after another summer in France, with the strains of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin in her head, she meets up with an old friend, Martin Amis, and falls hopelessly in love.

Read by Rosalind Ayres

Produced by Jane Marshall
A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. Show less

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