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15 Minute Drama: Rosamond Lehmann - Dusty Answer

15 Minute Drama: Rosamond Lehmann - Dusty Answer: Episode 1

Dusty Answer

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Rosamond Lehmann - Dusty Answer

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Childhood memories of growing up in the Thames Valley and the Fyfe family next door.

4 Extra Debut. Judith Earle's childhood memories of growing up in the Thames Valley and the Fyfe family cousins next door. Narrated by Julia Hills.

Rosamund Lehmann's first novel Dusty Answer records the education of Judith Earle, the only child of an academic father and socialite mother. Judith grew up in the seclusion of a large riverside house in the Thames Valley. The house next door is occupied from time to time by the Fyfe family whose children - cousins Charlie, Roddy, Julian and Martin drift in and out of her life. 

Part One sees Judith reminiscing about her childhood where the seeds of her strong friendship with the cousins are laid. Many years have passed and the cousins return in adolescence for an atmospheric day of skating on the pond. 

DUSTY ANSWER by Rosamund Lehmann dramatised by Lavinia Greenlaw 

Narrator ..... Julia Hills 
Judith ..... Rosina Carbone
Charlie ..... Jack Farthing
Martin ..... Oliver Gomm
Julian ..... Tom Ferguson
Gardener ..... Stephen Tomlin 

Directed by Susan Roberts.

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Dramatisation by Lavinia Greenlaw of the debut novel by Rosamond Lehmann

Dramatisation by Lavinia Greenlaw of the debut novel by Rosamond Lehmann, about the education of Judith Earle, the only child of an academic father and socialite mother

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