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Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie: 1. A Village Life

Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie

1. A Village Life

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The Lee family arrive in their new home in a traditional Gloucestershire village.

Evocative tale of a West Country childhood. The Lee family arrive in their new home. Recorded on location. Stars Tim McInnerny.

The Lee family arrive in their new home in the West Country of England.

The first of Laurie Lee's trilogy of memoirs, first published in 1959.  

Starring Tim McInnerny and Niamh Cusack. 

Dramatised in two parts by Nick Darke.

Recorded on location in and around the Slad valley in Gloucestershire. 

Laurie     .......     Tim McInnerny
Mother     .......     Niamh Cusack
Young Loll     .......     Sunny Leworthy
Phyllis     .......     Jennifer Compton
Harold     .......     Paul Currier
Marge     .......     Lisa Kay
Doth     .......     Briony Fforde
Jack     .......     Daniel Clifford
Tony     .......     Jed Blacklock
Crabby     .......     .June Barrie
Granny Trill     .......     Constance Chapman
Granny Wallon     .......     Val Lorraine
Fred Bates     .......     Chris Grimes
Uncle Ray/Deserter     .......     David Goodland
Miss Flynn     .......     Laura Strachan
Spadge Hopkins     .......     James Lawton

Lol's school friends played by the pupils of Rodborough Primary and Archway schools in Stroud

Music arranged and played by Paul Burgess

Directed at BBC Bristol by Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howe

First broadcast on Radio 4 in April 1998.

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Adaptation by Nick Darke of Laurie Lee's evergreen autobiography

Adaptation by Nick Darke of Laurie Lee's evergreen autobiography, which was recorded in and around the Slad Valley

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