Jane Morgan

Road to Lautrec

Drama: Road to Lautrec

Drama

BBC Radio 4

Douglas Livingstone

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Douglas Livingstone, Road to Lautrec

Romance set at a garlic festival in Lautrec.  With Cheryl Campbell and Robin Ellis.

A comic romance about lost love and French cuisine set during the Lautrec garlic festival. With Cheryl Campbell and Robin Ellis.

The hilltop community in the medieval village of Lautrec is one of the most beautiful villages in France.  It holds a festival to celebrate the harvest of their distinctive pink garlic. This two day event on the first weekend of August, attracts thousands of visitors with its bewildering array of garlic twining competitions, garlic sculptures, dancing, processions, elaborate church services, markets, culinary contests, a vast dole of free garlic soup and a huge communal dinner held under the stars. 

Three oddly assorted people from a London cookery course take advantage of an offer to visit the fete, staying with a local ex-pat. What follows is a comic romance of gastronomy, lost love and prodigious amounts of garlic and, rose wine, played out in a truly extraordinary place in the shadow of Brexit. 

Cast:

Mary ..... Cheryl Campbell 
Colin... ..Robin Ellis 
Harry..... Nigel Anthony 
Susanna..... Emma Cunniffe 
Young Mary..... Bronte Tadman 
Philippe.....Pierre Elliott 

Writer: Douglas Livingstone

Director: Jane Morgan

A 7digital production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in November 2017.

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