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Kate Buffery

John Rowe

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Nick Warburton

Claire Grove

Tracey Neale

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It's a full moon. Samuel remembers an old fenland story. Marcia has something on her mind.

By Nick Warburton. It's a full moon, and no-one is sleeping on Mardle Fen. Samuel is reminded of an ancient fenland story, and Marcia has something on her mind.

By Nick Warburton. It's a full moon and no-one is sleeping On Mardle Fen. Samuel is reminded of an ancient fenland story and Marcia has something on her mind. 

Director Tracey Neale
Producer Claire Grove 


Nick Warburton won the Peter Tinniswood Award for the Best New Play on Radio. His series The Peoples Passion went out to great acclaim last Easter on R4. His afternoon play, Friday When It Rains (TX October), was Radio Times Choice. Nick dramatised Father and Son and The Snow Goose for R4's Classic Serial. His original radio plays include Our Late Supper with Marcia Warren. Other work includes 6 episodes of Thrush Green and Moonfleet for Radio 4. Plays for stage and radio include Conversation from the Engine Room, which won the 1985 BBC/Radio Times Award, The Messenger for Radio 3, an adaptation of Tolstoy's Resurrection, A Grove of Straight Trees (short-listed for the BBC/Radio Times Drama Award), and A Soldiers' Debt (entered for the Prix Italia).

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Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Series of plays by Nick Warburton, set in an idiosyncratic restaurant in the Fens

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