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15 Minute Drama: Rosamond Lehmann - Dusty Answer

15 Minute Drama: Rosamond Lehmann - Dusty Answer: Episode 2

Dusty Answer

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Rosamond Lehmann - Dusty Answer

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Judith realises the Fyfe cousins have returned. An unexpected telegram arrives.

Judith realises the Fyfe cousins have returned. An unexpected telegram arrives from her mother in Paris. Stars Julia Hills, Rosina Carbone, Brodie Ross and Oliver Gomm.

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 Two. Judith realises the Fyfe cousins have returned to the house next door during a midnight swim in the river which joins both gardens . After days spent dancing, playing the piano and getting to know her neighbours again an unexpected telegram arrives form her mother in Paris. 

DUSTY ANSWER by Rosamund Lehmann dramatised by Lavinia Greenlaw 

Narrator ..... Julia Hills 
Judith ..... Rosina Carbone
Roddy ..... Brodie Ross
Martin ..... Oliver Gomm
Julian ..... Tom Ferguson
Tony ..... Jack Farthing
Mamma ..... Melissa Jane Sinden 

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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