The Winds of Heaven by Monica Dickens

Saturday-Night Theatre: The Winds of Heaven
Sat 6th Nov 1971, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM

By Monica Dickens, adapted for radio by Jill Hyem
with Joan Matheson, Richard Pearson and Angela Thorne.

"Going from one daughter to the other, trying to pass the time and keep out of the way in someone else's house - what did other women do who had been left alone without money or purpose in life?"

The Winds of Heaven is a 1955 novel about 'a widow, rising sixty, with no particular gifts or skills, shunted from one to the other of her more or less unwilling daughters on perpetual uneasy visits, with no prospect of her life getting anything but worse’ (Afterword). One daughter is the socially ambitious Miriam living in commuter belt with her barrister husband and children; one is Eva, an aspiring actress in love with a married man; and the third is Anne, married to a rough but kindly Bedfordshire smallholder who is the only one who treats Louise with more than merely dutiful sympathy. The one relation with whom she has any empathy is her grandchild.

Producer: Jane Graham

Miriam: Angela Thorne
Louise: Joan Matheson
Gordon Disher: Richard Pearson
Simon: Cordelia Mansall
Ellen: Jill Riddick
Arthur: Martin Friend
David Gower: Neville Jason
Anne: Barrie Shore
Frank: Brian Hewlett
Harry: Edward Kelsey
George Vernon: Bill Eddle
Mrs Dill: Katherine Parr

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