Afternoon Play - Final Demands
Series of plays by Frederic Raphael reuniting the characters from his novel The Glittering Prizes. Decades have passed, and we now catch up with Adam Morris and his friends (and enemies) in the 1990s
Afternoon Play - Final Demands - ...And A Happy New Year
Adam and Barbara meet their daughter-in-law Juliana and grandson for the first time. Juliana's encounter with one of Adam's old associates is shocking, to put it mildly.
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Afternoon Play - Final Demands - A Call From The Coast
Adam Morris is now a successful novelist and screenwriter and his daughter Rachel is living in California with his old classicist friend Bill Bourne. But Bill is now terminally ill.
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Afternoon Play - Final Demands - Black and White
An old friend invites Adam on to his radio programme to talk about his new book - and incidentally to make an uncharacteristic revelation.
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Afternoon Play - Final Demands - Point Counterpoint
At a publisher's launch party, Adam Morris runs into several old friends and a few enemies. Forty years on from their days at Cambridge, other paths are also crossing.
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Afternoon Play - Final Demands - The Distinguished Thing
It's now 50 years since Adam and his friends and enemies set out on their winding, interlocking paths. But it's Adam's brother Derek who holds the key to how the story ends.
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Afternoon Play - Final Demands - The Lesson of the Master
Back in Britain with the manuscript of Rachel's book, Adam decides to ask his and Rachel's old college mentor to give his opinion on it. The result is unsettling.
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