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15 Minute Drama: The Rabbit House: Episode 5: Exile and Return

The Rabbit House

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Episode 5: Exile and Return

Exile and Return

BBC Radio 4 - 15 Minute Drama, The Rabbit House, Exile and Return

In adulthood, Laura returns to Buenos Aires to discover what happened to the rabbit house.

In adulthood, Laura returns to Buenos Aires to discover what happened to the house and to friends Did and Cacho.

Ih the last episode of Laura Alcoba's powerful and moving account of her childhood in the turbulent years of the 'dirty war' in Argentina in the 1970s, the young Laura leaves the Rabbit House and is sent to safety in France. From here, many years later, she returns to Buenos Aires to discover what happened to the house and to her friends Did and Cacho, and especially to the baby Didi gave birth to. Like many people who lived through those times, the adult Laura finds the truth of what happened hard to bear, but like the women who demonstrate each week in the main square in Buenos Aires, she finds some hope for the future alive and still defiant.

The Rabbit House by Laura Alcoba is translated by Polly McClean and dramatised for radio by Sheila Yeger. 

Cast: 
Adult Laura: Saira Todd
Young Laura: Bethan Barke
Mother: Jenny Coverack
Father: Jay Villiers
Grandmother: Merelina Kendall
Grandfather: Rod Beacham
Diana: Lisa Coleman
Engineer: Vincenzo Pellegrino
Chicha: Sonia Elliman
Shopkeeper/Guard: Charlotte Ellis

Producer: Sara Davies.

15 Minute Drama: The Rabbit House

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Laura Alcoba's memoir about a turbulent Argentinian childhood in the 1970s

Dramatisation by Sheila Yeger of Laura Alcoba's moving account of her childhood in Argentina during the 'Dirty War' of the 1970s

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