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Violets by Alex Hyde

Episode 5

Duration: 14 minutes

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

In this lyrical debut, two women share a connection as they navigate love, loss and motherhood in the closing days of the Second World War.

Violet’s difficult decision about her future in Pontypridd can be put off no longer while, in Birmingham, the Halls apply to an adoption agency.

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

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