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2. Love Rivals

Episode 2 of 5

Devoted spaniel Flush faces a rival for the affections of invalid owner, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Read by Jenny Coverack.

Flush has abandoned memories of his early days in the country, and is now Elizabeth Barrett Browning's constant companion in her father's house in Wimpole Street.

However, when his beloved owner embarks on a very special correspondence, the spaniel senses change is in the air. His fears are confirmed with the arrival of a new visitor to the invalid's bedroom.

When Flush realises he longer occupies the most important place in Miss Barrett's affections, he decides to make his feelings about the usurper Mr Browning clear in the only way he knows.

Virginia Woolf's biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's devoted spaniel, Flush.

Read by Jenny Coverack

Abridged and produced by Sara Davies

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2011.

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15 minutes

Last on

Wed 22 Jan 202503:30
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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