Timberlake Wertenbaker’s adaptation from the French of Marcel Proust’s allegorical reflection on time, memory, art and love. It begins with the vivid memory of a young boy’s childhood summers spent in the French countryside of Combray and the long nights waiting for his mother to come and kiss him goodnight. The young Marcel takes beautiful walks with his parents and has his first sighting of the young Gilberte Swann, daughter of family friend and well-connected Parisian Dandy, Charles Swann and his wife, the courtesan and seductress Odette de Crecy. Cast: MARCEL (narrator) ………Derek Jacobi FATHER ………Oliver Cotton FRANCOISE ………Susan Brown MOTHER ………Sylvestra le Touzel GRANDMOTHER ………Joanna David TANTE LEONIE .……Pamela Miles GILBERTE (girl) ………Mary Glen ODETTE ..............Bessie Carter SWANN ………… Paterson Joseph MADEMOISELLE VINTEUIL/PROSTITUTE .... Charlotte Blandford THE DUCHESS DE GUERMANTES (Oriane) …………… Fenella Woolgar MADAME DE VERDURIN ………Frances Barber PIANIST …………Daniel Whitlam DOCTOR COTTARD …………Lloyd Hutchinson MARCEL(boy) ………Isaac Watts MONSIEUR VERDURIN …………Jeff Rawle FEMALE FRIEND……….Phoebe Marshall Translated and adapted from the French by Timberlake Wertenbaker Produced and directed by Celia de Wolff Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Tombling Recording and Sound Design: David Chilton and Lucinda Mason Brown Executive Producer: Peter Hoare A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 (copied—along with image—from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000...)