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Charlotte Jones - Airswimming

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17/09/1998

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Charlotte Jones - Airswimming

Two women find common ground when confined to an insane asylum.

Touching play of friendship between two women, who find common ground when confined to an insane asylum. Stars Sophie Thompson.

Persephone is just planning for her coming out ball, when she finds herself consigned to a rather puzzling finishing school: St Dymphna's Hospital for the Criminally Insane. 

An uplifting comedy of friendship; fantasy and freedom by Charlotte Jones.

Stars Charlotte Jones as Dora, Sophie Thompson as Persephone, Marcia Warren as Porph, Elizabeth Bradley as Dorph and Geoffrey Whitehead as the Dastardly Man.  

Director: Jonquil Panting

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998.

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