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Doris Lessing - The Grass Is Singing

Episode 1

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Racial politics in 1940s Rhodesia. The Nobel Prize-winning author's first novel.

Racial politics in 1940s Rhodesia. The Nobel Prize-winning author's first novel. Stars Alison Pettit and Tracy-Ann Oberman.

Mary Turner is found murdered on the veranda of her farmstead, her houseboy having confessed to the crime. But he seems to have no motive... 

A powerful exploration of racial politics in 1940s Rhodesia. 

Nobel Prize winner, Doris Lessing's first novel dramatised in two parts by Tina Pepler.

Mary Turner 1    ......    Alison Pettit  
Mary Turner 2    ......    Tracy-Ann Oberman  
Charlie Slatter    ......    Miles Anderson 
Pheobe Slatter    ......    Estelle Kohler  
Dick Turner    ......    Andrew Wincott
Tony Marston    ......    Tom George
Denham    ......    Don McCorkindale
Moses    ......    Nicholas Beveney
Joseph    ......    Kennedy Makambira
Samson    ......    Jess Philogene 
Susan    ......    Janine Esser
Monica    ......    Suzanna Hamilton

Director: Marion Nancarrow

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2000.

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Racial politics in 1940s Rhodesia. The Nobel Prize winning author's first novel.

Racial politics in 1940s Rhodesia. The Nobel Prize winning author's first novel. Stars Alison Pettit and Tracy-Ann Oberman.

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