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The Colour of Milk

Duration: 45 minutes

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

The Colour of Milk adapted from her novel by Nell Leyshon.

It's 1830. Mary is fifteen. She lives a quiet life on a farm with her mother and father. She's never spent a night away from her home, until the local vicar asks for help with his sick wife. Sexual desires have brutal consequences .

Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts. Show less

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