Vinegar Girl 

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Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler: Episode 10

Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler

Episode 10

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler, Episode 10

Anne Tyler's contemporary response to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.

With mice safely back in the lab, wedding celebrations can begin, but what kind of marriage will it be? Concluded by Liza Ross.

Dr Battista, an obsessively dedicated scientist, lives with his two daughters Kate and Bunny in Baltimore.

Kate has married her father's researcher Pyotr, in order for him to get a visa to stay.

Following a somewhat chaotic wedding ceremony and a dash by Pyotr to catch the liberator of their lab-mice - once they realised who was responsible - order has been restored at last.  

Now the wedding celebrations can begin in earnest, with congratulations to the happy couple and a glimpse into what their future holds, despite their rather unconventional courtship.

As part of the Hogarth Shakespeare project authors of international standing were invited to select a play and to write a contemporary version of it as a novel. 

Vinegar Girl is Anne Tyler's response to The Taming of the Shrew

Concluded by Liza Ross.

Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters.   

A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2016.

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Anne Tyler's contemporary response to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Read by Liza Ross

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