The Summer Snows
Robert Bathurst plays a writer with a compulsion to find mountain snowbeds. Dramatisation of the writer Christopher Nicholson’s non-fiction book, Among the Summer Snows.
Robert Bathurst stars in a dramatisation of the writer Christopher Nicholson’s non-fiction book, Among the Summer Snows. In late summer in 2016, Nicholson sets off from Dorset for the Scottish mountains in search of snow. He’s not entirely sure why he’s going. He’s haunted by the death of his wife, he has a daughter with chronic fatigue, and he has recently had a back operation. Yet he has a compulsion to hunt for the last remnants of snow, the iceberg relics of winter. A poetic and compelling exploration of what matters in the writer’s life as he confronts nature in the raw, dramatised by Nicholson and Jonathan Smith.
Christopher ..... Robert Bathurst
Hugh ..... Christopher Harper
Helen ..... Helen Clapp
Young Christopher ..... Oliver Zetterstrom
Mother ..... Catherine Cusack
Richard ..... David Hounslow
Ranger ..... Kenny Blyth
Mrs Cameron ..... Hilary Maclean
Other parts played by the cast
Producer/director: Bruce Young
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- Thu 8 Aug 2019 14:15Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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