The Last September

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Elizabeth Bowen - The Last September: 2. Falling in Love

Elizabeth Bowen - The Last September

2. Falling in Love

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Elizabeth Bowen - The Last September, 2. Falling in Love

Is Lois finally in love? With Anna Healy and Greg Wise.

1920, County Cork: Lois thinks she’s in love with an English officer, but Aunt Myra has other plans for her. Stars Anna Healy. From 1996.

1920, Danielstown, County Cork: Lois and Marda face a gunman in the deserted mill.

Lois thinks she is in love with an English officer, but her aunt has other plans for her.

Starring Anna Healy and Greg Wise.  

Conclusion of Elizabeth Bowen's coming of age novel.   

Dramatised by Nigel Gearing.

Lois ... Anna Healy
Gerald ... Greg Wise
Lady Myra ... Carmel McSharry
Sir Richard ... Denys Hawthorne
Marda ... Frances Tomelty
Hugo ... Billy Boyle
Francis ... Janet Maw
Livvy ... Anna Livia Ryan
David ... Robert Harper
Laurence ... JD Kelleher
Daventry ... Dorian Lough

Director: Claire Grove

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1996.

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Lois faces womanhood. Elizabeth Bowen's novel set during the Irish war of independence.

Womanhood beckons Lois. Elizabeth Bowen's 1929 novel set during the Irish war of independence.

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