Woman's Hour Drama - The Cloths Of Heaven - Episode 1

Sue Eckstein's dramatisation of her own novel, set in West Africa. A poem by WB Yeats holds the key to an unexpected love affair for a young British diplomat on his first overseas posting. As Daniel Maddison wanders the street markets of a town in West Africa, he sees a woman he knew five years before when he was a student at Oxford. But when he approaches her, she denies ever knowing him. Daniel ...... Matthew Pidgeon Rachel ...... Ruth Gemmell Kamal ...... Raad Rawi Alec ...... David Robb Diana ...... Briony McRoberts Ibraima ...... Damian Lynch Patrick ...... Bruce Alexander Isobel ...... Joanna Monro Newpin ...... Nigel Hastings.