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Virginia Baily - Early One Morning Omnibus: Episode 2

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Episode 2

Virginia Baily - Early One Morning Omnibus

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Virginia Baily - Early One Morning Omnibus, Episode 2

Italy 1943. Chiara is hiding Daniele, a young Jewish boy, in a remote farmhouse.

Italy 1943. Chiara is hiding Daniele, a young Jewish boy, in a remote farmhouse. Stars Greta Scacchi and Juliet Aubrey.

Italy 1943. Chiara and Cecilia are living with their grandmother in a remote farmhouse, where they shelter passing deserters and Daniele, the small Jewish boy Chiara saved from the Nazis. 

30 years later, Chiara has lost touch with her troubled adoptive son, but is preparing to host Welsh teenager, Maria, who claims to be Daniele's daughter. 

Greta Scacchi, Juliet Aubrey and Sophie Melville star in Miranda Emmerson's dramatisation of Virginia Baily's powerful novel, which moves between Nazi-occupied Italy and Rome, 1973.

Omnibus of the last five of ten parts. 

Narrator.....Greta Scacchi
Chiara.....Juliet Aubrey
Maria.....Sophie Melville
Cecilia.....Alex Tregear
Daniele.....Adam Thomas Wright
Gennaro/ Adult Daniele.....Cesare Taurasi
Simone/ Nonna.....Jessica Turner
Antonio.....David Hounslow
Gabriele.....David Acton
Tommaso/ Nazi officer/ Brian.....Felix Auer
Edna.....Amelia Lowdell
Barry/ Goffredo.....Chris Pavlo
Gianni.....Sam Dale

Director: Emma Harding

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2015.

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Greta Scacchi and Juliet Aubrey star in this wartime tale set in Italy.

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