Don Taylor - Daughters of Venice
The lives of the gifted girl musicians who must exit the Orphanage of the Pieta. Romantic comedy with Norman Rodway as Vivaldi.
The assignations, the comedy and passions concealed beneath the masks of the 18th century Venetian Carnival - to the accompaniment of Vivaldi's music, written for the brilliant girl musicians of the Orphanage of the Pieta.
But what happens to those brilliant girls when they're grown up and must leave the sheltered world of the Convent and enter the corrupt world of Venice..?
Don Taylor's romantic comedy stars Frances Barber as Contessa, Norman Rodway as Vivaldi, Amanda Root as Siliva, Chris Emmett as Bodger and Bill Wallis as Pazzo.
Violinist: Jean Bourgeois.
Director: Don Taylor
First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in 1993.
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Sun 10 Feb 2008 10:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 7- Sun 10 Feb 2008 20:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 7
- Sun 1 Mar 2009 10:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 7
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- Sat 17 Jul 2010 13:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 7
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- Sat 15 Mar 2014 06:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
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- Sat 26 Nov 2016 06:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra
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- Sun 27 Nov 2016 04:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 Extra