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On the Rocks

Series 1

Barter

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for years

Morwenna is trying to improve herself and Frank needs a lesson in island economics.

It's 1937 on St. Martin's - a remote island of the Isles of Scilly.

Islanders are resisting the attempts of the Penzance GPO man to modernise the post office - around which their world revolves.

Written by Christopher William Hill.

Frank Gunwallow ...... Joseph Kloska
Morwenna ...... Alex Tregear
Mary ...... Bec Applebee
Grace ...... Christine Absalom
Tommy ...... Stuart Fox
Ben ...... Alex Palmer
Len ...... Ed Gaughan
Tregarthan ...... Peter Marinker

Sound by Jenni Burnett, Anne Bunting and Graham Harper.

Diirector: Mary Peate

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2013. Show less

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