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Captain Scott explores the South Pole and Kathleen begins writing her promised journal.

Captain Scott explores the South Pole and Kathleen begins writing her promised journal until his return. Read by Jenny Coverack.

Jenny Coverack's trilogy A Father for my Son is adapted from her own one-woman stage play, written with Robert Edwards, based on the autobiography and journals of the sculptor Kathleen, Lady Scott. After living in Paris as an art student, and 'vagabonding' around Europe, Kathleen has at last found the man she wants to be the father of the son she longs for: a celebrated, well-dressed, rather ugly explorer with eyes of a startling blue called Captain Robert Falcon Scott. When their son Peter is two, Captain Scott sets off for the South Pole, and Kathleen begins the journal she has promised to keep for him until his return. 

With grateful acknowledgement to novelist Louisa Young, for her biography of her grandmother, Kathleen Scott, 'A Great Task of Happiness'.

Kathleen Scott: Jenny Coverack
Captain Robert Falcon Scott: Mark Meadows
Producer: Sara Davies.

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Readings based on the autobiography and journals of Kathleen Scott, widow of Captain Scott

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