Woman's Hour Drama
Dusty Answer, Episode 4
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 Four Judith is invited to a picnic with Julian and Martin, and Roddy takes her for a trip in a canoe. Romance rears its head ...but which of the cousins is it to be ? DUSTY ANSWER by Rosamund Lehmann dramatised by Lavinia Greenlaw Narrator ...................................Julia Hills Judith......................................Rosina Carbone Roddy......................................Brodie Ross Martin......................................Oliver Gomm Julian.......................................Tom Ferguson Mamma ...................................Melissa Jane Sinden Directed by Susan Roberts.