Temporary Shelter

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Salesman Larry loses his jovial bonhomie after meeting former actor-poet Trist on holiday.

Salesman Larry loses his jovial bonhomie after meeting former actor-poet Trist on holiday at a French camp site. Stars Roy Kinnear.

Salesman Larry is feeling burnt out.

So he and wife Marje try to relax on their first holiday in seven years at a camp site in the South of France.

Appearing to be full of jovial bonhomie, Larry reveals a very different side to his nature when Trist suddenly pitches his tent next door and starts to question him...

Starring Roy Kinnear.  

Drama written by novelist Rose Tremain. 

Larry    ......    Roy Kinnear
Marje    ......    Fiona Walker
Trist    ......    Anthony Newlands
Jean-Louis    ......    Yves Aubert
Annette    ......    Grazyna Monvid

Temporary Shelter won a Giles Cooper Award for one of the best plays of 1984.  

Directed at BBC Manchester by Kay Patrick.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1984.

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