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Under One RoofStairway to Heaven
Episode 3 of 5

Domestic routines are wearing Gillian down. Her mother has a solution, but will Gillian agree to it? Stars Paola Dionisotti.

Domestic routines are wearing Gillian down. Her mother has a solution, but will Gillian agree to it?

Gillian lives with her nineteen-year-old daughter and eighty-nine-year-old mother and her beloved boxer dog. Life is a constant balancing act, lived in the eye of the storm.

Starring Paola Dionisotti as Gillian.

Third episode in a series based on the original stories by Michele Hanson.

Gillian ... Paola Dionisotti
Bernice ... Edna Doré
Rosemary ... Angela Down
Olga ... Frances Jeater
Kathy ... Tilly Vosburgh
Herbie ... Geoffrey Whitehead

Written by Michele Hanson and Jenny Landreth.

Director: Marilyn Imrie

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1998.

15 minutes

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