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Afternoon Play: The Wendy House

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

In 1970 three close friends at a girls' school - Miranda, Jenny and Sarah - are working together towards
- their examinations. They meet in the old Wendy house in Jenny's garden, revising and reading to one another from Chairman Mao's Little Red Book, imagining they are Communists plotting the overthrow of the grown-ups, On her 50th birthday in 2005, Miranda has to disinter painful memories of something that happened then to end the innocence of her childhood. By Tessa Hadley.
Producer/Director Tim Dee

Contributors

Unknown:
Tessa Hadley.
Director:
Tim Dee
Miranda:
Harriet Walter
Young Miranda:
Jasmine Hyde
Sarah:
Vineeta Rishi
jenny:
Eleanor Tremain
Paul:
Owen Teale
Freddie:
John Telfer
Source: Radio Times

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