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Kenneth Grahame - The Golden Age

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29/08/2009

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Kenneth Grahame - The Golden Age

Five orphans enjoy the idyllic countryside, but the end of childhood innocence is nigh.

Five orphans enjoy England's idyllic countryside, but the end of childhood innocence is nigh. Stars James Fleet and Marcia Warren. From April 2002.

Five orphans growing up in the idyllic English countryside are looked after by assorted aunts and uncles.

Their lives are filled with fun and games, as they transform their toys and surroundings into many magical fantasies and adventures. But the time will come when the toys will be sent away, and the dreaded threat of boarding school looms to put an end forever to the innocent pleasures of childhood...

Kenneth Grahame's collection of reminiscences of childhood dramatised by Martyn Wade. 

Stars James Fleet as The Man, Jesse Jeune as The Boy, Marcia Warren as Miss Smedley, Alexandra Stone as Charlotte, Oliver Cookson as Edward, Harry Francis as Harold, Teresa Gallagher as Selina, David Timson as Uncle Thomas, Ann Beach as Aunt Eliza, Ian Masters as Mr Hodgitts, Patience Tomlinson as Aunt Maria, Gerard McDermott as Uncle William and Hannah Dee as Martha.

Music composed by Elizabeth Parker.

Producer: Cherry Cookson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.

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