The Weather In The Streets Part 2

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(3.5 stars; 3 reviews)

The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann with Angela Pleasence as Olivia and Simon Cadell as Rollo. Dramatised in two parts by Elspeth Sandys. Saturday-Night Theatre Part 2   Sat 23rd Jun 1979, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM 'I was always thinking something awful would happen to Rollo, he'd be snatched away from me behind an official barricade of lawful friends and relations.. Because I loved him he was threatened - by life, by me - I don't know .’ Music arranged and directed by Mike Steer Directed by Jane Morgan     Mrs Curtis: Monica Grey Kate: Marian Diamond Etty: Rosalind Ayres Ivor Craig: Tom Wilkinson Anna: Susan Engel Simon: Jonathan Newth Colin: Sylvester Morand Lady Spencer: Maxine Audley Mr Tredeaven: Peter Baldwin The Weather in the Streets is a novel by Rosamond Lehmann which was first published in 1936. When it was published it was an instant best-seller, selling particularly well in France. Olivia Curtis, a failed marriage behind her, thinner, sadder, and apprently not much wiser. A chance encounter on a train with a man who enchanted her as a teenager leads to a forbidden love affair and a new world of secret meetings, brief phone calls, and snatched liaisons in anonymous hotel rooms. Years ahead of its time when first published, this subtle and powerful novel shocked even the most stalwart Lehmann fans with its searing honesty and passionate portrayal of clandestine love. 

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.