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Ashes to Antarctica

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Last broadcast on Mon, 1 Mar 2010, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4.

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By Jim Eldridge. Widow Jill Foster is determined to scatter her husband's ashes on the wastes of Antarctica to commemorate the work he did there years ago. She sets off with her sister on a tourist cruise, only to find that attitudes have changed radically, and it will be more difficult than she thinks to fulfil her task.

Jill ...... Carolyn Pickles
Liz ...... Deborah McAndrew
Emilie ...... Yolanda Vazquez
Geoffrey ...... Mark Carey

Directed by Peter Leslie Wild.

Broadcast

  1. Mon 1 Mar 2010
    14:15
    BBC Radio 4

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45 minutes

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