Love for Lydia

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HE Bates - Love for Lydia: Episode 1

HE Bates - Love For Lydia

Episode 1

HE Bates - Love for Lydia

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As winter comes to Evensford, a local newspaper reporter meets a shy heiress.

As winter comes to Evensford, a local newspaper reporter meets a shy heiress. Stars Tim Pigott-Smith and Juliet Aubrey.

Winter has come to Evensford. As the first snowflakes of 1931 settle, Lydia Aspen has come to live with her two aunts. 

Richardson, a young reporter on the local paper, watches as the shy heiress passes by in a Daimler. His editor tells him "go and get the story"... 

HE Bates's semi-autobiographical novel  - first published in 1952.

Dramatised in ten parts by Vivienne Allen. 

Older Richardson    ……    Tim Pigott-Smith
Richardson    ……    Jordan Frieda 
Lydia    ……    Juliet Aubrey
Miss Bertie    ……    Margaret Tyzack
Miss Juliana    ……    Angela Thorne
Bretherton    ……    Philip Fox
Tom    ……    Jamie Bamber

Director: Tracey Neale

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2004.

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Juliet Aubrey stars in HE Bates's story of first love

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