In 9 parts
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Elizabeth Gaskell - Wives And Daughters
Dramatised in 9 one-hour episodes by Barry Campbell
Directed by Jane Morgan
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 August-October 1983
This broadcast BBC Radio 4Extra June 2011
Wives and Daughters was Mrs Gaskell's last and finest work, first published as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. The final chapter was left incomplete when she died suddenly in 1865. It is a witty, warm tale full of acute observation and sympathetic character-study. The story revolves around Molly Gibson, only daughter of a widowed doctor, living in the provincial village of Hollingford in the 1830s.
This is an excellent production from the golden age of BBC radio drama; the nine-hour running time really does full justice to the novel. The charming incidental music was an early work by Oscar-winning film composer Rachel Portman.
Cast:
Mrs Gaskell (narrator) .......... Thelma Whiteley
Molly Gibson .......... Kathryn Hurlbutt
Mr Gibson .......... Tom Wilkinson
Clare .......... Angela Pleasence
Squire Hamley .......... Robert Lang
Mrs Hamley .......... Lillias Walker
Osborne Hamley .......... Adam Baron [?spelling]
Roger Hamley .......... Michael Troughton
Mr Preston .......... Brett Usher
Cynthia .......... Anne-Louise Lambert
Miss Browning .......... Diana Bishop
Miss Phoebe .......... Hilda Schroder
Lady Cuxhaven .......... Anna Fox
Lady Cumner .......... Pauline Letts
Lord Cumner .......... Kerry Francis
Lady Harriett .......... Marian Diamond
Lord Hollingford .......... Geoffrey Collins
Mrs Goodenough .......... Margot Boyd
Miss Hornblower .......... Monica Grey
Miss Piper/Maid .......... Carole Boyd
Mr Cox .......... Alex Jennings
Old Silas .......... Michael Bilton
Sheepshanks .......... Peter Tuddenham
with Pauline Siddle, Nigel Graham, Moir Leslie, James Kerry, Eileen Tully, James Brice, Maggie McCarthy and Maddy Head
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