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Classic Serial: Sense and Sensibility: 1: Barton Cottage

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Jane Austen's novel adapted in four parts.

It is 1810, and the recently widowed Mrs Dashwood and her three daughters have been forced out of their family home. They move to a cottage in Devon, where Marianne is swept off her feet by a capricious stranger.
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Contributors

Author:
Jane Austen
Piano:
Mary Nash
Dramatised by:
Louise Page
Director:
Vanessa Whitburn
Elinor:
Jane Leonard
Marianne:
Abigail McKern
Mrs Dashwood:
Meg Wynn Owen
John Dashwood:
David Calder
Fanny Dashwood:
Auriol Smith
Margaret Dashwood:
Imogen Boorman
Edward Ferrars:
Tim Meats
Willoughby:
Robert Gwilym
Colonel Brandon:
Brett Usher
Mrs Jennings:
Ann Windsor
Sir John Middleton:
Malcolm Gerard
Lady Middleton:
Joan Moon
Thomas:
Terence Edmond
Source: Radio Times

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