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Radio 4 Extra,03 Aug 1996,90 mins
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
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"Love has brought you to the Hotel du Lac out of season to sit with other women and talk of clothes - is that what you want?" The Hotel du Lac is a Swiss refuge for the aged - and disgraced. It’s an unlikely setting for a romance… Anita Brookner's Booker Prize winning novel, first published in 1984. Starring Barbara Flynn and Jack Klaff. Dramatised by Ayshe Raif. Edith..... Barbara Flynn Mr Neville..... Jack Klaff Iris Pusey.... Joan Sims Jennifer Pusey..... Siddiqua Akhtar Monica ...... Lynne Verrall Harold..... Ian Masters Penelope ......Shirley Dixon Geoffrey ..... Ioan Meredith With: Colleen Prendergast Robert Harper Director Claire Grove First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1996.
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