My Mother Said I Never Should

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My Mother Said I Never Should: Episode 2

Episode 2

BBC Radio 4 - My Mother Said I Never Should, Episode 2

Charlotte Keatley's landmark drama tracing four generations of women.

Entanglement and estrangement bind together four generations of women in Charlotte Keatley's award-winning play.

Charlotte Keatley adapts her powerful, poignant and bittersweet stage play for audio. The drama traces four generations of women against the backdrop of the huge social changes of the twentieth century.

The four women revisit Doris's snowbound house following Jack's death; as they pack up the objects and clothes of 70 years of family life memories haunt and buried secrets threaten to surface.

DORIS..... Lesley Nicol
MARGARET.....Siobhan Finneran
JACKIE.....Cecilia Appiah
ROSIE.....Bebe Massey
CHILD DORIS.....Matilda Kent
CHILD MARGARET.....Isla Pritchard
CHILD JACKIE.....Mimi-Raie Mhlanga

Pianist Adam Hutchins
Sound Design by Sharon Hughes
Production Co-ordinator Pippa Day
Written by Charlotte Keatley
Produced and Directed by Nadia Molinari

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This production is dedicated to the memory of Wyllie Longmore.

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