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Don Taylor - Daughters of Venice

The lives of the gifted girl musicians who must exit the Orphanage of the Pieta. Romantic comedy with Norman Rodway as Vivaldi.

The assignations, the comedy and passions concealed beneath the masks of the 18th century Venetian Carnival - to the accompaniment of Vivaldi's music, written for the brilliant girl musicians of the Orphanage of the Pieta.

But what happens to those brilliant girls when they're grown up and must leave the sheltered world of the Convent and enter the corrupt world of Venice..?

Don Taylor's romantic comedy stars Frances Barber as Contessa, Norman Rodway as Vivaldi, Amanda Root as Siliva, Chris Emmett as Bodger and Bill Wallis as Pazzo.

Violinist: Jean Bourgeois.

Director: Don Taylor

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Sun 27 Nov 201604:00
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Broadcasts

  • Sun 10 Feb 200810:00
    BBC Radio 7
  • Sun 10 Feb 200820:00
    BBC Radio 7
  • Sun 1 Mar 200910:00
    BBC Radio 7
  • Sun 1 Mar 200920:00
    BBC Radio 7
  • Sat 17 Jul 201013:00
    BBC Radio 7
  • Sun 18 Jul 201001:00
    BBC Radio 7
  • Sat 15 Mar 201406:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Sat 15 Mar 201416:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Sun 16 Mar 201404:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Sat 26 Nov 201606:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Sat 26 Nov 201616:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Sun 27 Nov 201604:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra