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The Pallisers

Episode 1

Duration: 57 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for 10 days

Based on The Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope. Dramatised by Mike Harris.

Episode 1

A pacy, radical reworking of the Palliser novels about high life and low politics in Victorian England. Vivacious 19-year-old Lady Glencora Palliser is married to the older, conscientious politician Plantagenet Palliser. Life should be good, but she is in love with someone else - the wastrel Burgo Fitzgerald. Starring Jessica Raine as Lady Glencora Palliser.

Cora .... Jessica Raine
Plantagenet ..... Tim McMullan
Phineas Finn ..... Edward MacLiam
Burgo ..... Blake Ritson
Violet ..... Scarlett Courtney
Marie Goesler ..... Melody Grove
Kennedy/Slide ..... Neil McCaul
Bonce/Grimes ..... Greg Jones
Commons Speaker ..... Hamilton Berstock

Director/Producer Gary Brown Show less

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