Woman's Hour Drama - Dusty Answer - Episode 1

Rosamund Lehmann's first novel Dusty Answer records the education of Judith Earle, the only child of an academic father and socialite mother. Judith grew up in the seclusion of a large riverside house in the Thames Valley. The house next door is occupied from time to time by the Fyfe family whose children - cousins Charlie, Roddy, Julian and Martin drift in and out of her life. Part One sees Judith reminiscing about her childhood where the seeds of her strong friendship with the cousins are laid. Many years have passed and the cousins return in adolescence for an atmospheric day of skating on the pond. DUSTY ANSWER by Rosamund Lehmann dramatised by Lavinia Greenlaw Narrator ..... Julia Hills Judith ..... Rosina Carbone Charlie ..... Jack Farthing Martin ..... Oliver Gomm Julian ..... Tom Ferguson Gardener ..... Stephen Tomlin Directed by Susan Roberts.