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Hattie Morahan

Rosie Boore

Molly Pipe

Joel MacCormack

Clive Hayward

Neil McCaul

Isabella Inchbald

David Reakes

Rupert Holliday-Evans

Philip Bretherton

Kath Weare

Ellie Darvill

David Hunter

Michael Butt

Drama on 4: Penelope Fitzgerald - Offshore

Penelope Fitzgerald - Offshore

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Penelope Fitzgerald - Offshore

Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel set amongst 1960s Thames Barge-dwellers.

4 Extra Debut. On a barge on the Thames in the 1960s, Nenna and her two daughters have tricky decisions to make. Stars Hattie Morahan.

Penelope Fitzgerald's 1979 Booker Prize-winning novel is set amongst a small community of eccentric barge-dwellers on the River Thames. 

Nenna and her two daughters have tricky decisions to make.

Starring Hattie Morahan.  

Dramatised by Michael Butt. 

Nenna ..... Hattie Morahan
Tilda ..... Rosie Boore 
Martha ..... Molly Pipe 
Maurice ..... Joel MacCormack 
Richard ..... Clive Hayward 
Willis ..... Neil McCaul 
Laura ..... Isabella Inchbald 
Fr. Watson/Edward ..... David Reakes 
Pinkie ..... Rupert Holliday-Evans 
Antiques Man ..... Philip Bretherton 
Louise ..... Kath Weare 
Mrs Hodge ..... Ellie Darvill

Director: David Hunter

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018.

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