4. Too Beautiful
Lisa the new nanny is too beautiful for Frank, even with her plaits cut off. Narrator: Clare Higgins. Stars Richard McCabe.
The winter of 1913 finds Frank Reid, owner of a printing company, abandoned by his wife.
Frank Reid is not being helped by his accountant, Selwyn.
The English Chaplaincy has a scary resident and now a shop girl is taking on the nannying duties.
Lisa, the new nanny, is too beautiful for Frank, even with her plaits cut off.
Penelope Fitzgerald's novel of an English family in Moscow.
Dramatised by Penny Leicester.
Narrator: Clare Higgins
Frank ........ Richard McCabe
Selwyn ........ David Bamber
Nellie ........ Jennifer Lee
Jellicorse/Dolly ........ Charlotte Ellis
Other parts played by:
Sonia Ritter
Rachel Atkins
Samuel Barnet
Richard Bremmer
David Collins
Producer: Tim Dee
First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in September 2010.
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