1 Adam Thorpe Something Memorable

Afternoon Play: Something Memorable Fri 26th Jan 2001, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM Adam Thorpe's play imagines the conversation between Thomas Hardy and his first wife Emma Gifford in the last 45 minutes before midnight on 31 December 1900. They are sitting in front of a crackling fire on a frosty night at the gloomy Victorian house Hardy built near Dorchester. But as the clock winds down towards midnight and a new century approaches, the strains in their marriage become sharply focused. Hardy wants to read Emma his new poem, "The Darkling Thrush", while Emma tries to goad him into doing something more memorable. Director:...........Robert Ketteridge Tom:..........Patrick Malahide Emma:..........Gemma Jones Music performed by Chris Wood

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