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Two partygoers chat awkwardly as their internal thoughts are revealed, until they find common ground. Read by Emma Fielding.

Fascinated and preoccupied by the idea of this social event, Virginia Woolf wrote this story sequence around the same time as writing the novel Mrs Dalloway.

In each of these three stories, glimpse each character's innermost thoughts and emotions as Woolf depicts the intriguing social world of Mrs Dalloway's party in microscopic detail

This story sees two people introduced at Mrs Dalloway's party who begin a rather awkward conversation where each of their internal thoughts about the other is revealed. Until they hit upon a subject close to both of their hearts.

Read by Emma Fielding

Abridged and produced by Lucy Collingwood

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014.

15 minutes

Last on

Mon 17 Jun 201902:15
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  • Wed 16 Feb 201115:30
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  • Tue 18 Nov 201411:00
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  • Wed 19 Nov 201404:00
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  • Sun 16 Jun 201907:15
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  • Sun 16 Jun 201914:15
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  • Mon 17 Jun 201902:15
    BBC Radio 4 Extra