Woman's Hour Drama - The Walnut Bureau
Story following the lives and secrets of one family from Victorian times to the present day, with Paul Ritter, Charlie Brooks and Francesca Dymond. Written and directed by Ellen Dryden
Woman's Hour Drama - The Walnut Bureau - 1884
Ellen Dryden's family saga. 1/5. 1884. Mrs Drewe commissions East End cabinet maker Albert Wilson to make her a bureau with a secret drawer. But what does she plan to hide in it?
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Walnut Bureau - 1884
Ellen Dryden's family saga. 4/5: 1937. Dora and Billy's daughter Ruby has big ideas for her husband Edward. But the bureau holds a family secret which stops her in her tracks.
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Walnut Bureau - 1890
Ellen Dryden's family saga. 2/5. 1890. The local institute offers the chance of escape, until Emily receives some shattering news and another secret is stored inside the bureau.
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Walnut Bureau - 1916
Ellen Dryden's family saga. 3/5. 1916. Emily and her daughter-in-law Dora anxiously await letters from her son Billy, who is fighting in the trenches. But the news is devastating.
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Woman's Hour Drama - The Walnut Bureau - 2007
Ellen Dryden's family saga. 5/5: 2007. When Emily finds the hidden drawer, all the dark side of the family's history is revealed.
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