By Elizabeth von Arnim, dramatised by Vivienne Allen.
An advertisement in the Times newspaper lures a quartet of very different women away from rainy 1920s London to a castle on the Italian Riviera. The four women blossom in the Mediterranean sunshine, but there are a few surprises in store for them.
It is the 1920’s. Four very different women respond to an advertisement in the Times appealing to "those who appreciate wisteria and sunshine" to rent a small medieval Italian castle for a month. Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, the original two respondents, are joined in their act of escape by the youthful Lady Caroline, whose beauty and general melodiousness have become something of a burden to her, and the formidable Mrs Fisher, who insists that everyone think of her "just as an old lady with a stick" as she sets about imposing her will on the rest. Each one is vaguely unsatisfied with their lot and Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot both have marriages of quiet English unhappiness.
The climate and the castle eventually start to have an effect on the four women. Their perceptions shift and they wake up to the love in their lives.
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Narrator.........Jenny Funnell
Lotty.........Pippa Nixon
Rose.........Lyndsey Marshal
Mrs Fisher.........Joanna Monro
Caroline (Scrap) Rhiannon Neads
Mellersh.........Stephen Critchlow
Briggs.........Neet Mohan
Frederick/Domenico.........Chris Pavlo
Francesca.........Jessica Turner
Produced & Directed by Tracey Neale
Size 64MB. Length 69 Minutes. Bitrate 128kbps
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