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15 Minute Drama: Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook

15 Minute Drama: Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook: Episode 8

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The Golden Notebook

Episode 8

Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook

BBC Radio 4 - 15 Minute Drama, Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook, Episode 8

When Anna's daughter goes off to boarding school, she loses her grip on reality.

When Anna's daughter goes to boarding school, she loses her grip on reality. It is only when she buys a golden notebook that she sees a way out. Stars Susannah Harker.

Doris Lessing's twentieth-century classic, dramatised by Sarah Daniels.

When Anna's daughter goes off to boarding school, she loses her grip on reality. Her new lover Saul is equally unstable, and it is only when she buys a Golden Notebook that Anna begins to see a way out of her chaotic life.

Anna ...... Susannah Harker
Molly ...... Fenella Woolgar
Ella ...... Emma Fielding
Saul ...... Peter Brooke
Janet ...... Ellie Sager
Mrs Marks ...... Brigit Forsyth

Directed by Polly Thomas.

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Groundbreaking novel about motherhood, breakdown, marriage and communism.

Doris Lessing's groundbreaking novel about motherhood, breakdown, marriage and communism. Dramatised by Sarah Daniels, starring Susannah Harker.

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