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Afternoon Play: Something Memorable

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In the first of two plays about Thomas Hardy and his wives, Adam Thorpe imagines the conversation between Hardy and his first wife Emma Gifford before midnight on 31 December 1900. They are talking in front of a crackling fire on a frosty night at the gloomy Victorian house Hardy built near
Dorchester. As the clock winds down towards midnight and a new century approaches, the strains in their marriage become sharply focused. Hardy wants to read Emma his new poem The Darkling Thrush but Emma tries to goad him into doing something more memorable.
Producer Rob Ketteridge

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Hardy
Unknown:
Adam Thorpe
Unknown:
Emma Gifford
Producer:
Rob Ketteridge
Tom:
Patrick Malahlde
Emma:
Gemma Jones
Source: Radio Times

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