In a Summer Season

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Elizabeth Taylor - In a Summer Season

Drama: Relationships & Romance

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Elizabeth Taylor - In a Summer Season

1950s - when wealthy widow Kate weds a younger man the community wonders if it will last.

When wealthy widow Kate weds a younger man, her shocked 1950s community wonders if her happiness will last. Stars Kate Buffery.

Kate, a well-heeled widow, causes a sensation in her conventional community in the late 1950s when she falls for the charms of a younger man. 

She attracts both the envy and pity of her family and friends as they speculate whether her new found happiness can last beyond one golden summer.

Starring Kate Buffery.

Elizabeth Taylor’s love-based drama.

Kate ...... Kate Buffery  
Dermot ...... Chris Garner
Aunt Ethel ...... June Barrie
Charles ...... Michael Fenton Stevens
Edwina ...... Bonnie Hurren
Sir Alfred ...... Bill Wallis
Lou ...... Helen Weaver 
Father Blizzard ...... Paul Dodgson
Minty ...... Nicole Arumugam
Tom ...... Ben Tinniswood

Producer: Viv Beeby

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2001.

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