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The Way We Live Now: Chapter 1: The Great Heiress

on BBC Two England

by Anthony Trollope
Dramatised in five parts by Simon Raven
Starring Colin Blakely, Rachel Gurney

London in the 1870s is gripped in a fever of speculation. The latest figure to emerge at the centre of this scene is Augustus Melmotte, a man reputed to possess a large fortune.
(Colour)

Contributors

Author:
Anthony Trollope
Dramatised by:
Simon Raven
Script Editor:
Lennox Phillips
Costumes:
Charles Knode
Lighting:
Robert Wright
Designer:
Gwen Evans
Producer:
David Conroy
Director:
James Cellan Jones
Lady Carbury:
Rachel Gurney
Mr. Broune:
Angus MacKay
Sir Felix Carbury:
Cavan Kendall
Dolly Longestaffe:
Adrian Ropes
Vossner:
Pieter van Der Stolk
Miles Grendall:
Peter French
Lord Nidderdale:
Jeremy Clyde
Roger Carbury:
Inigo Jackson
Paul Montague:
Richard Heffer
Henrietta Carbury:
Sharon Gurney
Augustus Melmotte:
Colin Blakely
Madame Melmotte:
Irene Prador
Marie Melmotte:
Angharad Rees
Lord Alfred Grendall:
Llewellyn Rees
Croll:
Freddie Earlle
Hamilton K. Fisker:
Edward Bishop
Adolphus Longestaffe:
Charles Lloyd Pack
Georgiana Longestaffe:
Phyllida Law
Lady Pomona Longestaffe:
Patricia Hastings

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