
Episode 4
Julian and Martin invite Judith to a picnic, and Roddy offers a canoe trip. Romance is near, but with whom? Narrated by Julia Hills, with Rosina Carbone, Brodie Ross, Oliver Gomm.
Rosamund Lehmann's first novel Dusty Answer records the education of Judith Earle, the only child of an academic father and socialite mother. Judith grew up in the seclusion of a large riverside house in the Thames Valley. The house next door is occupied from time to time by the Fyfe family whose children - cousins Charlie, Roddy, Julian and Martin drift in and out of her life.
Part Four Judith is invited to a picnic with Julian and Martin, and Roddy takes her for a trip in a canoe. Romance rears its head ...but which of the cousins is it to be ?
DUSTY ANSWER by Rosamund Lehmann dramatised by Lavinia Greenlaw
Narrator ...................................Julia Hills
Judith......................................Rosina Carbone
Roddy......................................Brodie Ross
Martin......................................Oliver Gomm
Julian.......................................Tom Ferguson
Mamma ...................................Melissa Jane Sinden
Directed by Susan Roberts.