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Radio 4,31 Jan 2022,14 mins

6: But he was not mad, was he?

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

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As part of Radio 4's celebration of the centenary of the birth of Modernism, Sian Thomas reads Virginia Woolf's classic Modernist novel, set over a single day in 1923. It is midday, and with preparations for Clarissa Dalloway's party underway, life carries on across London. As the Warren Smiths make their way to see another doctor about Septimus' health, the admirable Hugh Whitbread and Richard Dalloway are en route to lunch with Lady Bruton... Reader: Sian Thomas Author: Virginia Woolf Abridger: Katrin Williams Producer: Justine Willett

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