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15 Minute Drama: The Dogs and the Wolves

Anna Francolini

Sydney Wade

Ellis Hollins

Will Tacey

Olwen May

Pauline Harris

Ellen Dryden

Irene Nemirovsky

15 Minute Drama: The Dogs and the Wolves: Episode 1

The Dogs and the Wolves

Episode 1

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Ada grows up during the Jewish pogroms in the Ukraine and falls in love with a rich cousin

4 Extra Debut. Ada grows up during the Jewish pogroms in the Ukraine and falls in love with a rich cousin. Narrated by Anna Francolini.

The Dogs and The Wolves Episode 1/5
by Irene Nemirovsky, translated by Sandra Smith
Dramatised by Ellen Dryden

Ada Sinner grows up during the Jewish pogroms in the Ukraine in the early 20c. When her Aunt Raisia and cousins come to live with her and her father, she feels more alone than ever. But then Ada discovers another cousin, the rich and distant, Harry Sinner, and a life long passion and love for Harry begins.

FURTHER INFO:
The French title - Entre chien et loup, meaning twilight, the time when the light is too dim to distinguish a dog from a wolf. This is a novel about family, about fate, about the power of love and about money. Of the banking crash that precipitates her novel's final tragedy, Némirovsky writes with eerie resonance. This was Némirovsky's last published novel.

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Fate, finance, and love cruelly collide in Irene Nemirovsky's last published novel

Fate, finance, and love cruelly collide in Irene Nemirovsky's last published novel, translated by Sandra Smith and dramatised by Ellen Dryden

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