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Hortense meets her landlady, Queenie Bligh, whose own story is unknowingly interwoven with Hortense's past. Queenie reflects on her own past and the journey she made to London. Andrea Levy's award-winning novel exploring empire, prejudice, war and love in Jamaica, England, America and India. Dramatised in fifteen parts by Pat Cumper Hortense … Nadine Marshall Queenie … Lyndsey Marshal Bernard ... Stephen Tompkinson Dorothy ... Ann Beach Queenie's Father ... Stephen Critchlow Music by Felix Cross Director: Sally Avens First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2006.
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