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Michelle Magorian - Back Home: Episode 1

Michelle Magorian - Back Home

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Michelle Magorian - Back Home, Episode 1

Wartime evacuee Rusty returns to Britain and meets a mother she doesn't recognise.

Wartime evacuee Rusty returns to Britain with an American accent, and meets a mother she doesn't recognise. Stars Mary Wimbush.

Rusty returns home to Britain after being evacuated to the United States during the Second World War.

But she's reunited with a mother she doesn't recognise. 

A wartime story by Michelle Magorian.

Starring Jessica Marshall-Gardiner, Emily Richard and Mary Wimbush.

Dramatised in four parts by Martin Jameson.

Rusty    ……    Jessica Marshall-Gardiner
Peggy    ……    Emily Richard 
Beattie    ……    Mary Wimbush
Charlie    ……    George Allonby 
Beth    ……    Kelly Bright 
Susie    ……    Sasha Graff 
Skeet    ……    Jamie Darnton
Aunt Hannah    ……    Jilly Bond 
Mitch    ……    Jonathan Keeble 
Ivy Woods    ……    Jane Whittenshaw
Movietone Announcer    ……    Peter Donaldson 
Van Driver    ……    Michelle Magorian

Director: David Hitchinson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1995.

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Wartime evacuee Rusty returns to Britain, and meets a mother she doesn't recognise

Wartime evacuee Rusty returns to Britain with an American accent, and meets a mother she doesn't recognise. Stars Mary Wimbush

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