Rough Cider By Peter Lovesey

Rough Cider

In Peter Lovesey's thriller set in the 60's, a lecturer is forced to re-live his childhood memories of a gruesome murder. Did he contribute to a miscarriage of justice?
Dramatised by Michael Z Lewin

Theo: Rob Edwards
Alice: Briony Glassco
Mr Lockwood: Neville Jason
Mrs Lockwood: Tina Gray
Barbara: Oona Beeson
Harry: Peter Whitman
Duke: David Jarvis
Bernard: Malcolm Ward
Sally: Frances Jeater
Voss: Don McCorkindale
Danny: Lyndam Gregory
Dr Ott: Gavin Muir
Young Theo: William Wortley

Director Matthew Waltersly.

Saturday-Night Theatre:
Sat 2nd Jul 1994
19:50 on BBC Radio 4 FM

It is World War II and American soldiers stationed in rural England have made friends, especially with the local girls. After a dance to celebrate the pressing of the apples into cider, the resentment of the local men leads to violence and a murder. Later, a child is born, a girl. When she grows up, she tries to find out more about her soldier-father. And long-forgotten jealousies and hatreds come frothing to the surface. Rough Cider was nominated for an Edgar Award.

“When I was nine, I fell in love with a girl of twenty called Barbara, who killed herself.”
Theo, a university lecturer, has his early life brought uncomfortably back when, in 1964 he is approached by an American girl called Alice. She wants to be told about her father, a GI hanged for murder in Somerset during World War II. As a boy, Theo had been a principal witness for the prosecution.

Alice persuades him to revisit the farm where Theo was evacuated. She is too young to have known her father, but is staunchly determined to discover the true facts. The horrors of the past take on a frightening immediacy when another murder is committed.

If you would like to buy me a coffee
https://ko-fi.com/oldtuberadio98
Or Direct via
https://paypal.me/oldtuberadio
Thank you
and
Please don't forget to subscribe
Thank You