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Racial politics in 1940s Rhodesia. The Nobel Prize-winning author's first novel. Stars Alison Pettit and Tracy-Ann Oberman.

Mary Turner is found murdered on the veranda of her farmstead, her houseboy having confessed to the crime. But he seems to have no motive...

A powerful exploration of racial politics in 1940s Rhodesia.

Nobel Prize winner, Doris Lessing's first novel dramatised in two parts by Tina Pepler.

Mary Turner 1 ...... Alison Pettit
Mary Turner 2 ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman
Charlie Slatter ...... Miles Anderson
Pheobe Slatter ...... Estelle Kohler
Dick Turner ...... Andrew Wincott
Tony Marston ...... Tom George
Denham ...... Don McCorkindale
Moses ...... Nicholas Beveney
Joseph ...... Kennedy Makambira
Samson ...... Jess Philogene
Susan ...... Janine Esser
Monica ...... Suzanna Hamilton

Director: Marion Nancarrow

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in September 2000.

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