Pepita's Daughter

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Drama: Biographical

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Pepita's Daughter

The story of Victoria Sackville, mother of Vita, who lived on the edge of high society.

4 Extra Debut. Victoria Sackville was born abroad, outside respectable society to an English Lord and Spanish dancer. Starring Diana Quick.

The extraordinary story of Victoria Sackville is more tempestuous and exotic than the better known story of her daughter, Vita Sackville-West. 

Victoria was the illegitimate child of Lord Sackville of Knole and a Spanish dancer Pepita, who died when Victoria was still a young girl. 

Their daughter grew up to be a beautiful and extrovert woman who, because of her origins, could never be quite respectable and who could never quite decide whether she wished to be so.

Starring Diana Quick and Alice Hart.  

Extraordinary drama written by Martyn Wade.

Victoria    .......    Diana Quick
Vita    .......    Alice Hart
Lionel Sackville-West    .......    Mark Straker
Lord Sackville    .......    Geoffrey Whitehead
Sir John Murray Scott    .......    Crawford Logan
Young Vita    .......    Maisie Cowell
FE  Smith    .......    Kim Wall

Director: Tracey Neale

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2006.

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