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Radio 4,09 Mar 2025,57 mins

Episode 1

Brat Farrar

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Claudine Toutoungi’s adaptation of Josephine Tey’s doppelganger thriller set in a post-war English landscape. When a stranger arrives at the door of a wealthy family estate claiming to be the missing heir, Patrick Ashby, it’s inevitable that the truth about what really happened to Patrick 8 years ago comes out. Brat Farrar ….. Levi Brown Alec ….. Alex Macqueen Simon Ashby ….. Louis Landau Beatrice Ashby ….. Kate Fleetwood Jane Ashby ….. Ava Talbot Ruth Ashby ….. Grace Baker Eleanor Ashby ….. Rose Basista Nancy ….. Ruth Everett Sandal ….. David Hounslow Sheila Parslow ….. Andi Bickers With Ian Dunnett Jnr and Samuel James Piano performed by Peter Ringrose Directed by Gemma Jenkins Production Co-ordinator: Sara Benaim Sound Designer: Andy Garratt Claudine Toutoungi is an award-winning poet and playwright. Her latest play for radio The Voice in my Ear-starring Charlotte Riley (Observer Pick of the Week/Drama of the Week) is on BBC Sounds and her latest poetry collection is ‘Emotional Support Horse’.

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