Saturday Play - 13/01/2007

Belgian Nurse The story of a friendship that created one of the 20th century's best-selling novels and films. When American writer Kathryn Hulme meets a Belgian nurse on a UN Relief Programme after the Second World War, she doesn't understand why Marie-Louise Habets is so unwilling to talk about herself. It's only later that Marie-Louise admits she has recently left her convent – a confession that reaches a worldwide audience through the book and then the film of The Nun's Story. Kathryn Hulme ...... Debora Weston Marie-Louise Habets ...... Rachel Atkins Pierre ...... John Moraitis Fred Zinneman ...... Garrick Hagon Audrey Hepburn ...... Christine Kavanagh Mother Benedict ...... Jane Ridley Produced and directed by Sara Davies.