The Letter
4 Extra Debut. Queenie Hennessy reveals the shocking and beautiful truth of her life - in a long, complicated letter, a love song to the man she loves.
In Rachel Joyce's best selling novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Queenie Hennessy is told she has days to live. She sends a letter of rose pink paper in which she bids goodbye to Harold Fry. It is a letter that inspires a walk, a cast of well-wishers, a journey of its own. Harold will save her.
Harold's story began its life as an award winning Radio 4 play so it only seems apt that this companion novel should grace the airwaves too.
In this novel there is a second letter - a quieter, longer, more complicated letter. It is in this one that Queenie reveals the shocking and beautiful truth of her life. It is Queenie's story and it is a love song to the man she loves.
'It's all very well for a man to step out of his front door and tell his friend to wait while he walks the length of England. It's an entirely different kettle of fish when you are the woman at the other end.'
Directed by Tracey Neale.
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Queenie | Sophie Thompson |
| Harold | Paul Venables |
| Sister Mary Inconnue | Roslyn Hill |
| David | Monty d'Inverno |
| Sister Catherine | Elaine Claxton |
| Sister Lucy | Hannah Genesius |
| Finty | Jane Slavin |
| Mr Henderson | Michael Bertenshaw |
| Napier | Shaun Mason |
| Author | Rachel Joyce |
| Director | Tracey Neale |
Broadcasts
Mon 20 Oct 2014 10:45Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4- Mon 7 Mar 2016 22:45Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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