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5. A New Chapter

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Friendship and family ties are tested as villagers hear the sound of wedding bells. Stars Patricia Hayes and Sian Phillips.

Friendship and family ties are tested as the villagers of Haverstock hear the sound of wedding bells...

Susan Hill's wryly-observed study of friendship and family ties in the small Midland village of Haverstock

Dramatised by Bill Matthews.

Eleanor Thorne..............Patricia Hayes
Dorothea Shottery........Gwen Watford
Florence Ames...........Anna Cropper
Alida Thorne......Stephanie Cole
Isabel Lavender............Sian Phillips
Kathleen Lavender.....Jill Graham
Hubert Gaily...........John Baddeley
Miss Cress...........Jillie Meers
Ma Gaily................Pauline Letts
Dr Sparrow.........James Telfer
Mrs Clemency........Irene Sutcliffe
Reverend...............Peter Penry-Jones
Ward sister............Linda Polan

Music by Peter Salem

Producer: Lissa Evans

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1993.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 13 Dec 202501:30
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