A Town Like Alice States it was shown as part of the PBS series "Masterpiece Theatre". In 1997 a six-part radio version of "A Town Like Alice" was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 starring Jason Connery, Becky Hindley, Bernard Hepton and Virginia McKenna who had starred as the novel's heroine, Jean Paget, in the 1956 movie version. It was dramatised by Moya O'Shea, produced by Tracey Neale and David Blount and directed by David Blount. It won a Sony Award in 1998. A Town Like Alice A Town Like Alice (United States title: "The Legacy") is a romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in
Alice Elinor Lambert Like That", she describes a young girl who refuses an artist's proposal and later regrets her decision. Specifically, the main character, Miss Juliet Delany, remembers, Reports are conflicting about whether or not Lambert ever married. David Silcox and Harold Town wrote that she never married, while Roy MacGregor wrote that she married a man and had two daughters with him. She died in Marysville, Washington in 1981 at the age of 95. Alice Elinor Lambert Alice Elinor Lambert (1886–1981) was an American romance writer. Lambert was born in Corvallis, Oregon in 1886. Her father, Charles Edward Lambert, was born in