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Hilary Mantel - Beyond Black: 2. Colette's Story

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Hilary Mantel - Beyond Black

2. Colette's Story

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Hilary Mantel - Beyond Black, 2. Colette's Story

Colette leaves her dull husband, becomes interested in the paranormal and consults Alison.

Collette leaves her dull husband, then becomes interested in the paranormal and consults Alison. Starring Rosie Cavaliero.

Colette is an event organiser whose marriage to dull, conventional Gavin ends after she has the strange experience of holding a phone conversation with Gavin's mother, whom she later discovers is dead.

Colette's interest in the paranormal leads her to a Psychic Extravanganza in Windsor where professional medium Alison is performing, and to a subsequent consultation where Alison drops a bombshell about her father and then makes her a surprising job offer.

Hilary Mantel's blackly comic novel about a professional medium with a troubled past.

Alison ...... Alison Steadman
Colette ...... Rosie Cavaliero
Gavin ...... Mark Meadows
Natasha/Renee ...... Adrienne O'Sullivan

Dramatised by Caroline Harrington.

Director: Sara Davies

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2010.

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