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