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Afternoon Play: The Ideal Heroine

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

By Alison Joseph. A play about love and art and the telling of stories. In 1894 Henry James tried to drown a boatload of dresses in the Venetian lagoon. They had belonged to the writer Constance Fenimore Woolson. In this play, fiction and reality begin to overlap as Henry struggles to make sense of his loss.
Director Gaynor Macfarlane

Contributors

Unknown:
Alison Joseph.
Unknown:
Henry James
Unknown:
Constance Fenimore
Director:
Gaynor MacFarlane
Henry:
Stuart Milligan
Constance:
Nancy Crane
American lady 1:
Charlotte Randle
American lady 2:
Laurel Lefkow
Rhoda/American lady 3:
Caroline Loncq
Source: Radio Times

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