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15 Minute Drama: Writing the Century: My Greenham

Pippa Haywood

Pauline Jefferson

Fiona Evans

Pauline Harris

15 Minute Drama: Writing the Century: My Greenham: Episode 1

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Writing the Century: My Greenham

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 - 15 Minute Drama, Writing the Century: My Greenham, Episode 1

Kent 1982. Ginette, a middle-class housewife, visits Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp.

Kent 1982. Ginette, a middle-class housewife, visits Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, and this impromptu daytrip changes her life forever.

Writing the Century - My Greenham
By Fiona Evans

The series which explores the 20th century through the diaries and correspondence of real people. Using the diaries of Ginette Leach this is a funny and moving coming of age story of a 50-year-old suburban housewife.

Deal, Kent 1982. Ginette, a middle-class housewife, visits Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp and for the first time in her life feels at home. What she doesn't realise is that this impromptu daytrip will change her life forever.

With her only son having flown the nest, Ginette has come to accept that her marriage is fake. To the outside world things are perfect. The couple are regulars at golf and sailing club, but behind the public façade John is having an affair with a work colleague and Ginette has been has been sleeping with a friend of hers - another married woman - for over 16 years.

Over the next two years Ginette visits Greenham and comes of age at 50: 'what the hell am I doing with my life, I need to do something for me.' Watching her mother die of cancer makes life and time seem all the more precious. So, inspired by the women of Greenham Ginette goes to university, comes out as a lesbian and is imprisoned for what she believes in.

Produced and directed by Pauline Harris.

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 Fiona Evans. Funny and moving coming-of-age story of a 50-year-old suburban housewife.

By Fiona Evans. The diaries of Ginette Leach provide the source for this funny and moving coming-of-age story of a 50-year-old suburban housewife.

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