2. Growing Up

Young Loll experiences his first taste of the adult world.

Laurie Lee's autobiographical account of growing up in a Gloucestershire village just after the First World War. Laurie Lee's memoirs, first published in 1959.

Starring Tim McInnerny and Niamh Cusack.

Dramatised by Nick Darke.

Recorded on location in and around the Slad valley in Gloucestershire.

Laurie ....... Tim McInnerny
Mother ....... Niamh Cusack
Young Loll ....... Sunny Leworthy
Rosie ....... Emily Parrish
Phyllis ....... Jennifer Compton
Harold ............ Paul Currier
Marge ....... Lisa Kay
Doth ....... Briony Fforde
Jack ....... Daniel Clifford
Tony ....... Jed Blacklock
Major Doveton ....... Bill Wallis
Vicar ....... Paul Dodgson
Baroness Von Hodenburg ....... June Barrie
Maurice ....... Chris Grimes
Rosie ....... Emily Parish
Jo Megan ....... Melish
Lizzie Berkeley ....... Laura Beckett
Waltz Carry ....... Luke Glastonbury-Cole
Sixpence ....... Buster Reece
Bony ....... Leanne French

Extras played by the villagers of Slad and Rodborough

Music arranged and performed by Paul Burgess

Directed at BBC Bristol by Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howe

First broadcast on Radio 4 in April 1998.