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Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

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A group of eclectic characters find themselves and each other in 1970's San Francisco

Dramatisation of Armistead Maupin's classic sequence of comic novels about the denizens of a San Francisco apartment house in the late 70s and early 80s

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Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City: Babycakes

Laurel Lefkow

Kate Harper

Jos Slovick

Simon Lee Phillips

Amanda Hale

Kieran Hodgson

Greg Lockett

Susan Roberts

Bryony Lavery

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Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City: Babycakes: Episode 2

Babycakes

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Mary Ann meets Simon, a British officer who has left the Royal Yacht Britannia.

While The Queen is visiting San Francisco, Mary Ann meets Simon, a British officer who has left the Royal Yacht Britannia. Stars Laurel Lefkow. From July 2014.

Babycakes from the Tales of the City series by Armistead Maupin, originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle and set in the city . Dramatised for radio by Bryony Lavery.
Following the drug and sex counter-culture, the AIDS pandemic has arrived .The Queen is visiting san Francisco. Mary Annhas struck up a friendship with Simon - a British officer who has left the ship .

Directed by Susan Roberts.

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Dramatisation of Armistead Maupin's fourth Tales of the City novel.

Armistead Maupin's fourth book in the Tales of the City series about the residents of a San Francisco apartment house, dramatised by Bryony Lavery.

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