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 Birdcage Walk (Omnibus)

Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (Omnibus): Episode 2

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Episode 2

Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore (Omnibus)

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A chance encounter reveals more of Diner's past.

Radicals, property and love in 1790s Bristol. A chance encounter reveals more of Diner's past. Read by Hattie Morahan.

Diner questions where Lizzie has been on her nocturnal wanderings, and a chance encounter with a dressmaker on the streets of Bristol reveals a clue to John Diner's past. 

Lizzie Fawkes decides to visit the dressmaker to find out more about Diner's first wife Lucie and the mysterious circumstances surrounding her death.

Based in Bristol in 1792, Helen Dunmore's novel is set against a backdrop of the French Revolution.

It touches on radical idealism, property speculation, political turmoil and private tragedy...

Omnibus of the last five of ten parts abridged by Sara Davies.

Read by Hattie Morahan and Carl Prekopp

Producer: Julian Wilkinson.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017.

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Hattie Morahan reads a tale of a marriage that reflects turbulent times in the 1790s

Hattie Morahan reads a tale of a marriage that reflects a backdrop of the established order battling against change in the 1790s

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