A radio portrait of George Eliot (1819-80) Written by MICHAEL KITTERMASTER with and ' In all autobiography there is, nay ought to be, an incompleteness which may have the effect of falsity. We are each of us bound to reticence by the piety we own to those who have been nearest to us and have had a mingled influence over our lives.
(GEORGE ELIOT )
After his wife's death, 'Johnny' Cross embarked on a detailed and voluminous Life. His task was to be more arduous than he thought, in an age when hypocrisy and prudery spared no-one, not even the great literary figures of the time. With the voices of GORDON GOSTELOW PETRA DAVIES
JUDY FRANKLIN AMANDA MURRAY
CHRISTOPHER SCOTT JOHN CHURCH and ANTHONY HYDE Directed by MAURICE LEITCH