by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Adapted for radio by Peter Mellors in collaboration with the author Characters in order of speaking:
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Production by Christopher Sykes
The action of the story takes place in Edgar Gaves-ton 's country house and its neighbourhood in rhe year 1901.
During the interval (9.40-9.65 app.):
Boccherini
String Quartet in D, Op. 6 No. 1 played by the New Italian Quartet on gramophone records