A First Anniversary
Paula McLain's fictional memoir told by Hadley, Ernest Hemingway's first wife, of their time in Paris in the 1920s. Adapted by Sheila Yeger.
2/5 Paula McLain's memoir of Paris in the 1920s is narrated by Hadley, Ernest Hemingway's first wife. As the couple settle down in Paris, and Ernest spends more and more time writing in the room he has rented not far away from their apartment, Hadley tries not to resent the time she spends on her own. She's promised him she'll never stand in the way of his work, but when he's asked to go to Turkey to report on the war there she begs him not to go, although she knows she'll make him angry. Her attempt to make amends ends in utter disaster.
Adapted by Sheila Yeger. Directed by Sara Davies
Hadley: Laurel Lefkow
Hemingway: Julian Ovenden
Ezra Pound: Martin Reeve
Gertrude Stein: Kim Hicks
Scott Fitzgerald: Gerard Cooke
Zelda Fitzgerald: Susannah Hampton
Pauline Pfeifer: Jennifer Lee Jellicorse.
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- Tue 15 Mar 2011 10:45成人快手 Radio 4
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