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Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

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A group of eclectic characters find themselves and each other in 1970's San Francisco

Dramatisation of Armistead Maupin's classic sequence of comic novels about the denizens of a San Francisco apartment house in the late 70s and early 80s

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Kate Harper

Lydia Wilson

Nancy Crane

Buffy Davis

Lou Hirsch

Bernice Stegers

John Guerrasio

Jos Slovick

Simon Lee Phillips

Valerie Cutko

Kerry Shale

Bryony Lavery

Susan Roberts

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City: Tales of the City: Episode 3

Tales of the City

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Mary Ann is considering going home while Michael hopes that Jon is moving in.

San Francisco, 1976. Mary Ann is considering going home while Michael hopes that Jon is moving in. Stars Lydia Wilson. From January 2013.

Disillusioned, Mary Ann Singleton's considering moving back to Cleveland. Mona and Michael cook up a scheme to pay the rent.

Directed by Susan Roberts

For more than 3 decades, Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture-from ground-breaking newspaper serial to classic novel. This is the first time it has appeared on radio, dramatised by Bryony Lavery.

Set in 1976 in San Francisco , Tales of the City is the first in a sequence of novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales is both a sparkling comedy of manners and an indelible portrait of an era that changed the way we live forever.

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Mary Ann, a naive young woman, arrives in San Francisco to find love and a new home

Armistead Maupin's comic novel, set in San Francisco in 1976, is dramatised by Bryony Lavery. A comedy of manners and a portrait of an era that changed lives

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