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Episode 7

Episode 7 of 10

While Luke's play finally opens in Oxford, Nina finds herself entering into a rather unholy arrangement with Tony.

Hayley Atwell reads Sadie Jones' acclaimed new novel set during the birth of radical theatre in 1970s London; a world in which the four central characters swirl, ambitious, eager yet all facing their own demons.

Today: While Luke's play finally opens in Oxford, Nina finds herself entering into a rather unholy arrangement with Tony.

Reader: Hayley Atwell
Producer: Justine Willett
Abridger: Sally Marmion
Written by Sadie Jones' whose debut, The Outcast, the story of a broken young man set in the repressed 50s, won a Costa Book Award and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2008. This is her fourth novel.

15 minutes

Credits

RoleContributor
ReaderHayley Atwell
ProducerJustine Willett
AbridgerSally Marmion
AuthorSadie Jones

Broadcast

  • Tue 20 May 201422:45

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