Amanda Root stars in this sparkling sequel to The Pursuit of Love.ĭramatised by Claire Luckham. Produced by Norman Wright.įirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 23 February 1974Ī glamorous invitation to a grand party at Hampton - home of the fantastically rich Montdores and their beautiful daughter Polly - brings Fanny into the world of 1920s high society: and in and out of love when the temperature drops. Other parts played by Sion Probert, George Raistrick, Alan Rowe and William Sleigh.Īdapted by Alan Melville. This bittersweet tale follows the fortunes of Fanny Logan and her eccentric aristocratic cousins, the Radletts, as they embark on disastrous love affairs and misconceived marriages while searching for Mr Right. Collected here are adaptations of her two bestsellers, the semi-autobiographical The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate her delightful biography of Louis XV's chief mistress and a pair of fascinating programmes exploring her own unconventional life. An aristocrat and socialite, she mingled with the 'Bright Young Things' in interwar London, and went on to satirise their foibles in razor-sharp, wickedly funny prose. The eldest of the notorious Mitford sisters, Nancy Mitford was renowned for her comic novels of upper-class life. Love in a Cold Climate, again related by Fanny, focuses on Polly Hampton, long groomed for the perfect marriage by her fearsome mother, Lady Montdore, but secretly determined to pursue her own course.BBC Radio adaptations of Nancy Mitford's most famous novels and acclaimed biography of Madame de Pompadour plus bonus programmes The Pursuit of Love is the story of Linda, the most beautiful and wayward of the Radlett daughters, who falls first for a stuffy Tory politician, then an ardent Communist (whom she follows to the Spanish Civil War), and finally a very wicked and irresistibly charming French duke. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin, Fanny ('the Bolter's girl'), on one of her frequent visits to their country estate: Uncle Matthew the blustering patriarch, owner of that bloodied entrenching tool above the fireplace, who hunts his children with bloodhounds vague Aunt Sadie, and six children recklessly eager to grow up.

Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious) family. Love in a Cold Climate & The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford € 27.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 3-5 working days.

The pursuit of love in a cold climate