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Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore: Episode 7

Birdcage Walk

Episode 7

Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore

BBC Radio 4 - Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore, Episode 7

As the news from France darkens, Lizzie has a secret she must hide from Diner.

As the news from France darkens, Lizzie has a secret she must hide from Diner.  Read by Hattie Morahan and Carl Prekopp.

The news from France darkens, and Lizzie receives a French visitor - but the visitor has not come to talk of the Revolution. 

Instead she is searching for Lizzie husband's Diner, and the whereabouts of his first wife's tombstone. 

Based in Bristol in 1792, Helen Dunmore's novel is set against a backdrop of the French Revolution.

It touches on radical idealism, property speculation, political turmoil and private tragedy...

Read by Hattie Morahan and Carl Prekopp

Abridged by Sara Davies.

Producer: Julian Wilkinson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017.

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Helen Dunmore's novel is set in Bristol in 1792 as revolution blazes in France.

Helen Dunmore's novel is set in Bristol in 1792 as revolution blazes in France. Abridged by Sara Davies. Read by Hattie Morahan and Carl Prekopp.

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