Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
4 Extra Debut. Disgraced writer Edith reflects on being exiled amongst a group of wealthy hotel guests in Switzerland. Stars Barbara Flynn.
"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, a Swiss refuge for the aged and disgraced, is 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 91福利社 Radio 4 in August 1996.
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