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15 Minute Drama: Writing the Century: Takes Two to Tandem

Bryan Dick

Sophia Di Martino

Nick Haverson

Martin Richardson

Susan Twist

Harriet Chandler Judd

Will Tacey

Sharon Sephton

Lavinia Murray

15 Minute Drama: Writing the Century: Takes Two to Tandem: Episode 5

Drama: Biographical

Writing the Century: Takes Two to Tandem

Episode 5

BBC Radio 4 - 15 Minute Drama, Writing the Century: Takes Two to Tandem, Episode 5

New Year's Eve. Frank and Doris are saying farewell to 1938.

New Year's Eve. Frank and Doris are saying farewell to 1938, facing what looks like, on a global scale, a rather troubling future.

Writing the Century
Takes Two to Tandem
by Lavinia Murray

The series which explores the 20th century through the diaries and correspondence of real people, returns with Takes Two to Tandem by Lavinia Murray. A touching, lively, humorous drama inspired by the 1930s diaries of Frank Ayliffe.

Frank is a doer and a trier, a wonderfully complex, gregarious, self-confounding, honest and loving man, always aware of his shortcomings and keen to better himself intellectually and materially. Takes Two to Tandem is a rich glimpse into how aspirational, impoverished and socially mobile the interwar years were.

Frank: ' It seems to me that the best thing to do is to be aware of the angle that the world is, for each one of us, a personal world. We can create our own ideas of freedom and set standards of behaviour which will enable us to maintain an attitude of being unattached to the petty things that are the beginning of bondage in bigger things.'

New Year's Eve. Frank and Doris are saying farewell to 1938, facing what looks like - on a global scale - a rather troubling future. Nothing is certain.

Produced and Directed by Sharon Sephton.

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

By Lavinia Murray. Lively drama inspired by Frank Ayliffe's 1930s diaries

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