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Wessex Tales: An Imaginative Woman

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

by Thomas Hardy
Dramatised by William Trevor
Starring Claire Bloom as Ella
with Norman Rodway as Marchmill and Maureen Pryor as Mrs Hooper

Fate brings Ella Marchmill to rent the rooms of a poet she has always admired. Her admiration gradually turns into obsession.

The heroines of Hardy... women struggling to love: see pages 54-59

Contributors

Author:
Thomas Hardy
Dramatised by:
William Trevor
Music composed and conducted by:
Joseph Horovitz
Film Cameraman:
Brian Tufano
Film Editor:
Angus Newton
Designer:
Tony Abbott
Producer:
Irene Shubik
Director:
Gavin Millar
Ella:
Claire Bloom
Marchmill:
Norman Rodway
Mrs Hooper:
Maureen Pryor
Coburn:
Paul Dawkins
Nanny:
Barbara Kellermann
Mrs Hooper's maid:
Anne-Louise Wakefield
Marchmill's maid:
Lasairfhiona Mangan
Marchmill's friend:
Charles Kinross
Marchmill's friend:
Max Latimer
Robert Trewe:
George Camiller
The Marchmill children:
Emma Gohar
The Marchmill children:
Julian Gohar
The Marchmill children:
Naomi Gohar
Source: Radio Times

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