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Afternoon Reading: Penelope's People

Afternoon Reading: Penelope's People: Episode 1: Divorcing Grandpa

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Episode 1: Divorcing Grandpa

Divorcing Grandpa

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By Roy Apps. Eleanor must find new ways to pay her granddaughter's school fees.

By Roy Apps. With her husband in prison for a white-collar crime, Eleanor must find new ways to pay her granddaughter's school fees. Should she break the law herself?

In Penelope's People, a new series of specially commissioned monologues, Penelope Keith presents three very different women, coming to terms with their changing circumstances - and demonstrates her skills as a versatile character actor.

In Divorcing Grandpa by Roy Apps, Penelope Keith plays Eleanor - an upper-middle class woman whose professional husband has been sent to prison for an unspecified white-collar crime. In order to continue living in the style to which she has become accustomed (and to continue to be able to afford her darling grand-daughter's school fees) she realises that she too must break the law - and quickly discovers that she is rather good at it.


Reader: Penelope Keith


Producer: David Blount
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Series of three monologues performed by Penelope Keith

Series of three monologues performed by Penelope Keith, presenting resourceful characters responding very differently to big changes in their lives

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