Setting Polly's betrayal behind her, Kate is once again at the hospital.

As she waits for David to return from his angioplasty, she contemplates Emma's curious affection for Tennyson’s poem ‘In Memoriam’.

Tim Jackson's drama investigates Darwinism from the perspective of a woman ambitious to win in the rat race of modern academia.

Kate Williams .... Julia Hills
David Williams .... David Hargreaves
Emma …. Janet Maw
Nurse .... Lorna Laidlaw
Priest .... Ian Brooker

Director: Peter Leslie Wild

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001. Show less