Your Blue Eyed Boy (Omnibus)

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Helen Dunmore - Your Blue-Eyed Boy (Omnibus)

Drama: Legal & Courtroom

Drama: Relationships & Romance

Your Blue-Eyed Boy, by Helen Dunmore

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Helen Dunmore - Your Blue-Eyed Boy (Omnibus)

A female district judge's past catches up with her.

A district judge, holding her family together, struggles to escape her past when she receives a letter. Starring Pippa Nixon.

Simone is a district judge whose husband Donald is on the verge of bankruptcy and breakdown. 

She attends court, passes judgement on the lives of others when out of the blue a letter arrives; someone she has tried to forget has not forgotten her and Simone's private history is about to collide with her public world.

Helen Dunmore's 1998 novel, weaves together crime, judgement, desire and loss.

Omnibus of five episodes dramatised by Fiona Evans.

Simone ...... Pippa Nixon
Donald ...... Graeme Hawley
Michael ...... Andonis Anthony
Matt ...... Elija Wolf
Joe ...... Milo Robinson
Busker ...... Paul Cargill

Produced and directed by Pauline Harris

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2020.

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