Iris Murdoch: A Severed Head

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Julian Rhind-Tutt

Victoria Hamilton

Helen Schlesinger

Matthew Marsh

Rhiannon Neads

Iris Murdoch

Stephen Wakelam

Sally Avens

Iris Murdoch: A Severed Head: Episode 3

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Iris Murdoch's witty satire on analysis and overly-cultivated bed-swapping characters.

Martin is forced to explain his adultery and finds his civilised front buckling in an unexpected fashion. Stars Matthew Marsh.

Martin is forced to explain his adultery to his adulterous wife and her lover and finds his civilised front buckling in an unexpected fashion.

Iris Murdoch's witty and wise story dramatised by Stephen Wakelam.

Martin ..... Julian Rhind-Tutt
Antonia ..... Victoria Hamilton
Honor Klein ..... Helen Schlesinger
Palmer Anderson ..... Matthew Marsh
Georgie ..... Rhiannon Neads

Director: Sally Avens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2015.

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Iris Murdoch's satire on analysis as a group of over-cultivated characters swap partners.

Satire on the sexual shenanigans of an overly cultivated group of characters in thrall to Freudian analysis. Dramatised by Stephen Wakelam.

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