BBC Radio 4, 13-27 July 2008
dramatized by Rachel Joyce
The Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who in "affronting her destiny", finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates.
This version made ingenious use of the radio medium to transform James’s novel into a power-struggle for Isabel Archer’s (Anna Maxwell Martin’s) soul.
It was divided into three episodes approximately one hour each.
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