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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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Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City: Babycakes

Laurel Lefkow

Kate Harper

Jos Slovick

Simon Lee Phillips

Buffy Davis

Amanda Hale

Kieran Hodgson

Louis Labovitch

Greg Lockett

Susan Roberts

Bryony Lavery

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Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City: Babycakes: Episode 1

Babycakes

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BBC Radio 4 - Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City, Babycakes, Episode 1

The Aids pandemic arrives in San Francisco.

4 Extra Debut. Armistead Maupin's fourth 'Tales of the City' novel. The Aids pandemic has arrived in San Francisco. Michael is bereft while Brian wants a baby.

Babycakes is the fourth book in the Tales of the City series by Armistead Maupin, originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle and set in the city . Dramatised for radio by Bryony Lavery. Landlady Mrs Madrigal is watching over the tenants of her house on Barbary Lane.
Babycakes is often cited as the first work of fiction to address the AIDS pandemic.
It begins in 1983, with the revelation of Jon Fielding's death from AIDS. His lover Michael is bereft. Brian, now 38 wants a baby but Mary Ann is still working hard. The Britannia is in town along with the Queen and the Royal party 

Directed in salford by Susan Roberts.

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Dramatisation of Armistead Maupin's fourth Tales of the City novel.

Armistead Maupin's fourth book in the Tales of the City series about the residents of a San Francisco apartment house, dramatised by Bryony Lavery.

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