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Drama on 4

Penelope Fitzgerald - Offshore

Duration: 57 minutes

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

Penelope Fitzgerald's 1979 Booker Prize-winning novel is set amongst a small community of eccentric barge-dwellers on the River Thames.

Nenna and her two daughters have tricky decisions to make.

Starring Hattie Morahan.

Dramatised by Michael Butt.

Nenna ..... Hattie Morahan
Tilda ..... Rosie Boore
Martha ..... Molly Pipe
Maurice ..... Joel MacCormack
Richard ..... Clive Hayward
Willis ..... Neil McCaul
Laura ..... Isabella Inchbald
Fr. Watson/Edward ..... David Reakes
Pinkie ..... Rupert Holliday-Evans
Antiques Man ..... Philip Bretherton
Louise ..... Kath Weare
Mrs Hodge ..... Ellie Darvill

Director: David Hunter

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018. Show less

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