Tales of the City: Series 1 and 2: Two BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations Audiobook (Free)

Summary:

Lydia Wilson and Kate Harper celebrity in these BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of the first and second novels in Armistead Maupin’s acclaimed ‘Stories of the Town’ series.

Arranged against the 1970s San Fransisco skyline, Maupin’s Stories of the town introduces the unconventional tenants of 28 Barbary Lane, the domain of the eccentric, marijuana-growing landlady Anna Madrigal.

Mary Ann Singleton, a naive youthful woman newly-arrived from Cleveland, Ohio, goes into a flat there and shortly becomes about Tales of the City: Series 1 and 2: Two BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations friends with various other tenants of the building: the hippyish bisexual Mona Ramsey; the strange Norman Neal Williams; and Michael Tolliver, a lovely and personable homosexual man recognized to his close friends as Mouse. Beyond the house, lovers and friends information Mary Ann through her San Franciscan escapades…

In More Tales of the City, landlady Anna Madrigal reveals her secrets to her tenants, however they are getting ready to flee their cosy nest for adventures further afield.

Dramatised by Barbara Lavery, this is both a gleaming comedy of manners and a portrait of a free and easy era.

Cast:

Anna Madrigal….. Kate Harper

Mary Ann….. Lydia Wilson

DeDe….. Nancy Crane

Mona….. Buffy Davis

Edgar….. Lou Hirsch

Frannie/Binkie/Mucca….. Bernice Stegers

Beauchamp….. John Guerrasio

Michael….. Jos Slovick

Jon/Brian….. Simon Lee Phillips

D’Or/Betty….. Valerie Cutko