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The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy (Omnibus)

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The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

25/10/2014

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy (Omnibus)

A dying woman writes her secrets down for a man trying to see her before it's too late.

A dying woman writes her life secrets down for a man who is trying to see her before it's too late. Stars Sophie Thompson.

In Rachel Joyce's best-selling novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Queenie Hennessy is told she has days to live. She sends a letter bidding goodbye to Harold Fry. It's a letter that inspires a walk, a cast of well-wishers, a journey of its own. Harold will save her. Harold's story began its life as an award-winning Radio 4 play.
 
In this Omnibus of the five-part dramatisation of this novel, there's a second letter - a quieter, longer, more complicated letter. Queenie reveals the shocking and beautiful truth of her life - a love song to the man she loves.

'It's all very well for a man to step out of his front door and tell his friend to wait while he walks the length of England. It's an entirely different kettle of fish when you are the woman at the other end.'

Queenie ..... Sophie Thompson
Harold ..... Paul Venables
Sister Mary Inconnue ..... Roslyn Hill
David ..... Monty D'Inverno
Sister Catherine ..... Elaine Claxton
Sister Lucy ..... Hannah Genesius
Finty ..... Jane Slavin
Mr Henderson ..... Michael Bertenshaw
Napier ..... Shaun Mason

Director: Tracey Neale.

First broadcast in five parts on BBC Radio 4 in 2014.

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