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The Way We Live Now: Part 5: Close of Play

on BBC Two England

by Anthony Trollope
A second chance to see this dramatisation in five parts by Simon Raven
Starring Colin Blakely, Rachel Gurney

Melmotte has been elected to the House of Commons. He has been given two days to produce £80,000 to pay for Pickering, and is trying to persuade Marie to make over her fortune to him.
(Shown on Saturday)
(Colour)

Contributors

Author:
Anthony Trollope
Dramatised by:
Simon Raven
Script Editor:
Lennox Phillips
Make-up:
Sandra Hurll
Lighting:
Robert Wright
Designer:
Gwen Evans
Producer:
David Conroy
Director:
James Cellan Jones
Augustus Melmotte:
Colin Blakely
Marie Melmotte:
Angharad Rees
Madame Melmotte:
Irene Prador
Croll:
Freddie Earlle
Lord Nidderdale:
Jeremy Clyde
Dolly Longestaffe:
Adrian Ropes
Waiter:
John Devaut
Brehgert:
Christopher Benjamin
Paul Montague:
Richard Heffer
Henrietta Carbury:
Sharon Gurney
Squeroum:
Philip Anthony
Mrs. Hurtle:
Sarah Brackett
Speaker:
Sandy Stein
Fat Member:
Peter Stephens
Thin Member:
Geoffrey Rose
The Marquis of Auld Reekie:
Eric Woodburn
Adolphus Longestaffe:
Charles Lloyd Pack
Lady Carbury:
Rachel Gurney
Broune:
Angus MacKay
Hamilton K. Fisker:
Edward Bishop
Lady Pomona Longestaffe:
Patricia Hastings
Sir Felix Carbury:
Cavan Kendall
Roger Carbury:
Inigo Jackson

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