Desperate Frederica Potter auditions for a play about Elizabeth I written by her father's colleague, the beautiful Alexander Wedderburn.

The Virgin in the Garden is the first of four AS Byatt novel adaptations chronicling the lives of the Potter family, set against the social and political landscape of England of 1953-1970.

Older Frederica …. Rosemary Leach
Young Frederica …. Hannah Watkins
Crowe …. Dudley Sutton
Alexander …. Adam Kotz
Wilkie …. James Callis
Jenny …. Hannah Dee
Stephanie …. Helen Longworth

All four novels dramatised in 30 parts by John Harvey.

Producer: Mary Peate.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2002. Show less