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Woman's Hour Drama - Inside the Whale

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Jennie Roonie's tragi-comic tale of two lovers as they look back on their lives that should have been spent together

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Woman's Hour Drama - Inside the Whale - A Dairy and a Shoe-Box

Jennie Roonie's tragi-comic tale of two lovers as they look back on their lives. Michael has found some tattered photographs. Stevie is feeding bats and remembering Peckham Rye.

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Woman's Hour Drama - Inside the Whale - Addis Ababa

Jennie Roonie's tragi-comic tale of two lovers as they look back on their lives. A factory bombed, a bombshell dropped. The war takes its toll on young love and future dreams.

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Woman's Hour Drama - Inside the Whale - I Only Have Eyes for You

Jennie Roonie's tragi-comic tale of two lovers as they look back on their lives. Michael and Stevie remember the tender early days of their romance and the heady autumn of 1939.

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Woman's Hour Drama - Inside the Whale - In Sickness and in Health

Jennie Roonie's tragi-comic tale of two lovers as they look back on their lives. Despite lying mute in his hospital bed, Michael is determined to communicate some of his story.

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Woman's Hour Drama - Inside the Whale - It's A Kiss

Michael’s time to tell Anna his whole story is running out - today he reveals what happened the last time he met Stevie.

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Woman's Hour Drama - Inside the Whale - Moving On

Stevie finds sanctuary in the form of a Government Inspector. Michael remembers African solace and Queen Matilda, the only pigeon to be awarded the Dicken Medal for bravery.

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Woman's Hour Drama - Inside the Whale - Not as practical as I thought

Jennie Roonie's tragi-comic tale of two lovers as they look back on their lives. Michael gives Anna a final parting gift and Stevie discovers that she can see what she thought she had lost forever.

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Woman's Hour Drama - Inside the Whale - 'Putting a life together again'

After the tragedy of Alf's death, Michael finds a way to go on but he can't go back. In the London Blitz, Stevie waits to hear from him, and for her baby to be born.

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Woman's Hour Drama - Inside the Whale - The Absolute Beginning of Things

Jennie Roonie's tragi-comic tale of two lovers as they look back on their lives. As Michael lies mute, memories stir of his childhood. Meanwhile, Stevie recalls an older love story.

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Woman's Hour Drama - Inside the Whale - Was I Delusional?

Lying in his hospital bed, Michael is writing out his life for Anna, who tends to him.

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