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Afternoon Reading: Womanly Wiles

Afternoon Reading: Womanly Wiles: Episode 1: Ties That Bind

Ties That Bind

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Episode 1: Ties That Bind

Womanly Wiles

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Hollywood star Kathleen Turner reads Christine Conrad's story of family rivalry.

Ties That Bind: 4 Extra Debut. Kathleen Turner reads screenwriter Christine Conrad's specially commissioned story of family tension set on Cape Cod.

American star Kathleen Turner reads this specially commissioned story of family tension.

After the death of her husband, a New York writer decides to move to Cape Cod where her younger sister has a house on the Bay. Their mother lives in a nearby assisted-living facility. Neither sister has children; the father died many years ago. Only the three women are left. How nice, our storyteller feels, for them to regain some of the closeness of former years; to recapture the fun and memories of childhood summers - when the family had happily vacationed there.

But what if ties that are supposed be binding turn out to be less than secure - even fraying at the edges? What if a house-purchase becomes problematic? And where are the difficulties actually coming from? Mother? Or the sisters? Could 'family', perhaps, exist only in the mind?

Producer/Director: Rosalind Ayres.

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