Love For Lydia (Omnibus)

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HE Bates - Love for Lydia (Omnibus): Episode 1

HE Bates' Love For Lydia Omnibus

Episode 1

HE Bates - Love for Lydia (Omnibus)

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From winter to midsummer night, a local reporter and a shy heiress get acquainted.

From winter to midsummer night, a local reporter and a shy heiress get acquainted. 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.  

Omnibus of the first five of ten parts.

Dramatised 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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