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Afternoon Theatre Mr Gilfil's Love Story

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

from Scenes of Clerical Life by GEORGE ELIOT dramatised as a play for radio by JOAN O'CONNOR
' Like a great oak tree, he was, with the branches blasted by a storm. But the heart of oak was there, always.'
Produced by DAVID DAVIS †

Contributors

Unknown:
George Eliot
Unknown:
Joan O'Connor
Dorcas:
Sheelah Wilcocks
Sir Christopher Cheverel:
Norman Shelley
Lady Cheverel:
Gladys Spencer
Tina:
Anna Calder-Marshall
Sharp, her maid:
Jan Edwards
Capt Anthony Wybrow:
John Bentley
Maynard Gilfil:
Malcolm Hayes
Beatrice Assher:
Curigwen Lewis
Lady Assher, her mother:
Grizelda Hervey
Bates, a gardener:
James Thomason
Daniel, husband to Dorcas:
Leonard Fenton
Source: Radio Times

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