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Drama on 4: The Colour of Milk

The Colour of Milk

02/05/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, The Colour of Milk

By Nell Leyshon. Rural Somerset, 1830, sexual desires have consequences for a young girl.

The Colour of Milk adapted from her novel by Nell Leyshon.

It's 1830. Mary is fifteen. She lives a quiet life on a farm with her mother and father. She's never spent a night away from her home, until the local vicar asks for help with his sick wife. Sexual desires have brutal consequences . 

Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts.

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