BBC Radio 4 The Saturday Play

Broadcast Saturday 2 August 2003 — 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm
Producer/Director Sara Davies

Stevie Davies dramatises her novel, a love story that unfolds against a background of guilt, memory and the legacy of the Second World War. It is 1958 and Isolde takes up a teaching post at a school in Germany, in the building that housed the rump Nazi command at the end of the war. Here she finds not only the new life she is searching for but also disturbing echoes of her own family's past.

 Cast
Isolde ....................... Siriol Jenkins
Renate ....................... Eleanor Bron
Lynne ....................... Rebecca Smart
Susan ....................... Amanda Horlock
Michael ....................... Paul Humpoletz
Wolfi/young Michael ....................... Kenneth Collard
Patterson/Paul ....................... Alan Moore
Frau Meier ....................... Jennie Stoller
Young Paul ....................... Andy Henderson
Lennie ....................... Susie Fugle
Schoolchildren ...................... Alice Crook, Joshua Boyden, Olivia Crook, Sarah Kenyon and Ellen White
Music by Elizabeth Purnell