5. Adventure

Summer 1957 and after the family tragedy, Rosemary wants them all to go on holiday.

But her mother Penelope feels old and sad and can't embrace the drinking, dancing and jollity.

Margaret Forster's novel about family and conflicting memories.

Dramatised by Juliet Ace.

Penelope (mother) . . . . Angela Pleasence
Rosemary . . . . Nichola McAuliffe
Celia . . . . Jenny Funnell
Emily . . . . Jessica Lloyd

Director: Tanya Nash

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2000.