Woman's Hour Drama - Women's Room
Dramatisation of Marilyn French's seminal novel celebrating its 30-year anniversary of publication. Adapted for radio by Sarah Daniels
Woman's Hour Drama - Women's Room - Episode 1
Mira begins her look back at her life, starting with the traumatic teenage experience that shaped her view of sex and men.
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Woman's Hour Drama - Women's Room - Episode 10
By 1968, Mira has settled into Harvard life, embracing the political and social changes that are going on around her. Then she falls in love with a younger man.
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Woman's Hour Drama - Women's Room - Episode 11
Things start to go wrong between Mira and Ben when he suggests a family holiday.
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Woman's Hour Drama - Women's Room - Episode 12
Mira's relationship with Ben becomes all-consuming and she sees less of her close friends. Val and Tad's tempestuous relationship reaches a crisis.
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Woman's Hour Drama - Women's Room - Episode 13
Mira is increasingly politically engaged as 1960s America takes to the streets. Chris suffers a horrific attack which threatens her close relationship with her mother.
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Woman's Hour Drama - Women's Room - Episode 14
Val distances herself from her friends. Ben offers Mira the opportunity of a lifetime, at a price.
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Woman's Hour Drama - Women's Room - Episode 15
Mira's new life is turned upside down when Val dies and the close-knit group of friends disintegrates.
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Woman's Hour Drama - Women's Room - Episode 2
Married life is not what Mira expects; she has to give up school to be a full time housewife while Norm studies. Then she finds herself pregnant...
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Woman's Hour Drama - Women's Room - Episode 3
Mira is shaken by a difficult labour. Her fellow patients help her come to terms with the overwhelming feelings of motherhood.
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Woman's Hour Drama - Women's Room - Episode 4
Mira makes new friends with some of her neighbours and forms a close bond with Lily. Over time, the full extent of Lily's tragic background comes to the fore.
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Woman's Hour Drama - Women's Room - Episode 5
Mira unwittingly helps to get her friend Lily committed to an asylum and terrifying electric shock treatment.
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Woman's Hour Drama - Women's Room - Episode 6
Mira and Norm are now fully absorbed into suburban New Jersey, where they embrace cocktail and dinner parties.
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Woman's Hour Drama - Women's Room - Episode 7
Mira is shocked when her friend Martha starts an affair with a married man. Things get even worse when Mira's own husband demands a divorce.
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Woman's Hour Drama - Women's Room - Episode 8
Following her divorce, Mira finds solace in alcohol until one evening she reaches breaking point and makes a brave decision.
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Woman's Hour Drama - Women's Room - Episode 9
Mira arrives in Harvard. She feels like a fish out of water until she is adopted by an unlikely family of women, headed by larger-than-life Val.
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