Woman's Hour Drama - The Rabbit House - The Reunion Doll

Laura Alcoba's powerful and moving account of a growing up as the child of militant members of the Montoneros during Argentina's 'dirty war' in the 1970s. Young Laura is staying with her grandparents, while her father 's in prison and her mother goes into hiding. It's been two months since she's seen them. After a visit to her father in prison, Laura goes with her grandparents to meet her mother in a busy square, to be confronted by a woman with heavily dyed hair she barely recognises who takes her off to buy another doll. Each time she and her parents are reunited after a period apart, Laura gets a doll, and she's beginning to build up quite a collection. Adult Laura: Saira Todd Young Laura: Bethan Barke Mother: Jenny Coverack Father: Jay Villiers Grandmother: Merelina Kendall Grandfather: Rod Beacham Diana: Lisa Coleman Engineer: Vincenzo Pellegrino Chicha: Sonia Elliman Shopkeeper/Guard: Charlotte Ellis Producer: Sara Davies The Rabit House by Laura Alcoba is translated from the French by Polly McLean, and adapted for radio by Sheila Yeger.