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Juliet Ace - Mattie: The New Look

Drama: Relationships & Romance

Trilogy of plays by Juliet Ace about growing up in South Wales.

Juliet Ace - Mattie: The New Look: Tailor's Tacks

14/05/1999

Tailor's Tacks

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Juliet Ace - Mattie: The New Look, Tailor's Tacks

Mattie loves spending time in a place where the adults often forget she is there.

4 Extra Debut. 1946. Mattie loves the tailor's workroom next door, but the adults around her often forget she is there, saying things they should not. From May 1999.

1946: Young Mattie loves spending time next door in the tailor's workroom where the adults often forget that she's there and say things they shouldn't.

Juliet Ace's trilogy of plays about the South Wales childhood of Mattie Jones.

Stars Vanessa Mullaley as Young Mattie, Jennifer Hill as Older Mattie, Margaret John as Hannah, Viv Moore as Lizzie, Siriol Jenkins as Ceridwen, William Thomas as Mr Matthias, Viv Goodfield as Mrs Matthias and Shelley Miranda Barrett as Beeny. 

Directed at BBC Wales by Tanya Nash

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.

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