1. Revenge

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**** 4 Extra marks 40 years since the first BBC TV broadcast of 'The Life and Loves of a She Devil' on 8th October 1986. Ruth discovers her husband is sleeping with a prettier, richer woman. So she starts planning ingenious and diabolical ways to punish them both… Starring Hattie Morahan. Fay Weldon's gleefully bawdy satire on the war of the sexes, is a fable about the rewards and dangers of our capacity for transformation. A darkly comic fairy tale about revenge, sex and power, first published in 1983. Dramatised in two parts by Joy Wilkinson. Ruth ...... Hattie Morahan Bobbo ...... Barnaby Kay Mary Fisher ...... Lyndsey Marshal Nurse Hopkins ...... Rosie Cavaliero Mrs Fisher ...... Susan Jameson Nicola ...... Evie Killip Andy ...... Leo Wan Garcia ...... Chris Pavlo Angus ...... Gerard McDermott Insurance Man ...... Gerard McDermott Brenda ...... Debra Baker Mrs Trumper ...... Debra Baker Elsie Flower ...... Katie Redford Girl in Job Centre ...... Rebecca Hamilton Director: Abigail le Fleming First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2016.