The Shooting Party

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Preparations take place for the shoot, below stairs and in the Oxfordshire country village

Preparations take place for the shoot, below stairs and in the Oxfordshire country village. With Olivia Colman and Sam Dale.

Sir Randolph Nettleby is holding the biggest shoot of the Autumn 1913 season on his Oxfordshire country estate.  

Preparations are taking place below stairs and in the village...  

Isabel Colegate's novel dramatised by DJ Britton.

Narrator ..... Olivia Colman
Sir Randolph Nettleby..... Sam Dale 
Cornelius Cardew ..... Jude Akuwudike
Gamekeeper Glass ..... David Seddon
Ellen ..... Sally Orrock
Gilbert Hartlip ..... Sean Baker
John ..... Michael Shelford
Osbert ..... Joshua Swinney

Director: Jessica Dromgoole   

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2010.

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Autumn, 1913: Isabel Colegate's novel dramatised by DJ Britton. With Olivia Colman.

Set in Autumn, 1913, Isabel Colegate's novel dramatised by DJ Britton. With Olivia Colman.

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