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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: Michael Tolliver Lives

Kate Harper

Trevor White

Martin Sherman

Simon Lee Phillips

Laurel Lefkow

Suzie Grimsdick

James Lailey

Charlotte Riches

Susan Roberts

Lin Coghlan

Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City: Michael Tolliver Lives: Episode 5

Michael Tolliver Lives

Episode 5

BBC Radio 4 - Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City, Michael Tolliver Lives, Episode 5

Mary Ann returns to San Francisco to join the vigil at Mrs Madrigal's bedside.

Mary Ann returns to San Francisco to join the vigil at Mrs Madrigal's bedside. Stars Laurel Lefkow and Kate Harper. From May 2016.

Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin

Episode Five

Mary Ann returns to San Francisco to join the vigil at Mrs Madrigal's bedside. Shawna makes a decision about her move to New York. 

Dramatised by Lin Coghlan
Producer Susan Roberts
Director Charlotte Riches


For more than three decades, Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series has blazed its own trail through popular culture-from ground-breaking newspaper serial to classic novel. Radio 4 are dramatising the full series of the Tales novels for the very first time. Michael Tolliver Lives continues the adventures of Armistead's well-loved characters, followed by Mary Ann in Autumn.

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

Dramatisation of Armistead Maupin's seventh Tales of the City novel. It is 2005 in San Francisco, and Mrs Madrigal and her children are back.

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