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15 Minute Drama: The Dogs and the Wolves

Sydney Wade

Ellis Hollins

Ben Hanley

Anna Francolini

Olwen May

Fiona Clarke

Sarah Smart

Graeme Hawley

Pauline Harris

Ellen Dryden

Irene Nemirovsky

15 Minute Drama: The Dogs and the Wolves: Episode 2

The Dogs and the Wolves

Episode 2

BBC Radio 4 - 15 Minute Drama, The Dogs and the Wolves, Episode 2

After a row with her Aunt Raissa, Ada runs away. Ben, Raissa's son, offers her a solution.

Ada loves her rich cousin Harry, whilst her poor cousin Ben loves her. Then both families move to Paris. Stars Sydney Wade.

The Dogs And The Wolves ep2/5 by Irene Nemirovsky, translated by Sandra Smith
dramatised by Ellen Dryden

Early 20c.  We travel from the Jewish Pogroms of the Ukraine to Paris.  Ada secretly loves a distant rich cousin, Harry Sinner.  When both families move to Paris she doesn't catch sight of him again until several years later when she's a young woman.   He's moving in elite French company whilst Ada is a poor seamstress.   After a terrible row with her cruel Aunt Raissa, Ada runs away.   Ben, Raissa's son, who is hard and cunning but loves Ada, offers her a solution.

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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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