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Violets by Alex Hyde

Episode 4

Duration: 14 minutes

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

Alex Hyde’s lyrical debut follows two women navigating love, loss and motherhood at the end of the Second World War.

A heavily pregnant Violet sees out her war service in an Italian hospital while, in Birmingham, Fred’s wife eagerly awaits his return from Burma.

Read by Morfydd Clark and Lorna Nickson Brown
Abridged by Siân Preece
Producer: Eilidh McCreadie Show less

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