Anthony Head Credits

Now Voyager

Radio play (UK)

Role: Jerry Durrance
Original air date: October 30, 2004
Network: BBC Radio 4

BBC Press Release: Sarah Lancashire, Anthony Head and Joan Plowright star in this radio dramatisation of Bette Davis’s classic film Now Voyager. It tells a Cinderella-like tale of how a plain Jane is transformed into an attractive, elegant woman, and how she matures emotionally and comes to terms with herself.

A dowdy, frustrated spinster from a wealthy New England family is urged by her fashionably elegant sister-in-law to have a beauty makeover and to undertake a Mediterranean cruise. Physically transformed, on board she meets an architect, Jerry Durrance, with whom she slowly falls in love. But he is married with children he loves, and the affair cannot have a happy ending. Circumstances lead her to form a special bond with his vulnerable 12-year-old daughter, and finally she settles for a loving relationship with him and the child. The famous last line, of both the film and the book, is: "Jerry, don’t let’s ask for the moon. We have the stars!"

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