Four full-cast adaptations of Rosamund Lehmann’s best-known novels, plus short stories and a bonus programme about her life and work

Dusty Answer – Judith Earle is the only child of an academic father and socialite mother, growing up in the seclusion of a large riverside house in the Thames Valley. The house next door is occupied from time to time by the Fyfe family, whose children—cousins Charlie, Roddy, Julian and Martin - drift in and out of her life. Childhood friendships develop into romantic entanglements that continue as Judith leaves home for Cambridge.

Invitation to the Waltz – Olivia wakes up on her 17th birthday knowing that something has changed—but what exactly, she doesn't yet understand. Her very first dance, a week later, is her opportunity to test her wings in the wider world. A tender classic about a young girl's adolescent rite of passage.

The Weather in the Streets – A sequel to Invitation to the Waltz. Olivia is now living a faintly bohemian life in London in the early 1930s. When she meets up again with Rollo, the handsome and unhappily married son of Lord and Lady Spencer, she falls prey once more to his charm and confidence, and they embark on a passionate and secret affair.

The Echoing Grove – Two sisters meet in order to be reconciled after 15 years. Various ghosts lie between them and not least that of Rickie—husband of Madeleine and lover of Dinah.

'When the Waters Came' – A woman and her children spending the war in the country are shocked when a great thaw comes suddenly in February and floods the village.

'A Dream of Winter' – Lehmann's 1946 short story, in which a bee man arrives during winter to take the swarm living in the walls of the house.

An Inner Life – A bonus programme about the author's life and work, which includes interviews with Rosamond Lehmann herself.