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Cousin Bette: 2: The Hand is Played

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by Honore de Balzac dramatised by Joan O'Connor
with Alethea Charlton
'I'll pull them all down: beggar and ruin them. destroy their loves and hound them into the grave.'
After hearing that her cousin is to marry the man that she herself had saved from death, Cousin Bette determines on the destruction of the Hulot family.
(Repeated: Tuesday 3.5 pm)

Contributors

Author:
Honore de Balzac
Dramatised by:
Joan O'Connor
Director:
Jane Morgan
Bette Fischer:
Alethea Chahlton
Gaston:
Ronald Herdman
Baron Hector Hulot:
William Fox
Hortense Hulot:
Marian Diamond
Adeline Hulot:
Jill Balcon
Count Wenceslas de Steinbock:
Sandor Eles
Valerie Marneffe:
Shirley Dixon
Ceileslin Crevel:
Christopher Benjamin
Rivet:
Leslie Heritage
Sheriff's Officer:
Douglas Blackwell
Johann Fischer:
Lewis Stringer
Vauvinet:
Gerald Cross
General de Fortzheim:
Ernest Hare
Source: Radio Times

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