Isabel Colegate - The Shooting Party (Omnibus)
Autumn 1913 at a Country House party - English society comes under the microscope, at the end of its time. With Olivia Colman.
Autumn 1913: Sir Randolph Nettleby has invited guests to the biggest shoot of the season - an opulent gathering at his Oxfordshire country estate.
Everything about it would seem a perfect affirmation of the certainties of Edwardian country life.
Yet, their social and moral code is under siege from within and without...
A whole society is under the microscope, a society soon to be destroyed in the trenches of the Western Front.
Isabel Colegate鈥檚 novel was published in 1980.
Omnibus of five parts dramatised by DJ Britton.
Narrated by Olivia Colman
Cicely Nettleby ..... Ellie Kendrick
Sir Randolph Nettleby ..... Sam Dale
Olivia Lilburn ..... Jaimi Barbakoff
Lionel Stephens ..... Michael Shelford
Minnie Nettleby ..... Christine Kavanagh
Osbert Nettleby ..... Joshua Swinney
Lord Gilbert Hartlip ..... Sean Baker
Aline Hartlip ..... Sally Orrock
Director: Jessica Dromgoole
First broadcast on 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4 in August 2010.
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