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Hardy's Women

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Episode 2

Duration: 57 minutes

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

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Dramatisation of Hardy's novel about Tess Durbeyfield, a beautiful, poor young Dorset woman. In today's episode, Tess tries to make a clean break with her past by going to work at Talbothay's Dairy, a world away in a different vale.

Cast:
TESS ..... Faye Marsay
ANGEL ..... Matthew Tennyson
CRICK ..... John Dougall
IZZY ..... Kathleen Cranham
MARIAN ..... Bettrys Jones
RETTY ..... Ell Potter
CHARWOMAN ..... Alex Tregear
JOAN DURBEYFIELD ..... Maggie Service
MRS CRICK ..... Elizabeth Counsell
MAN at the Inn ..... Hasan Dixon
FARMER ..... John Lightbody
STRANGER ..... Chris Lew Kum Hoi
JONATHAN ..... David Seddon

Author, Thomas Hardy
Dramatist, Katie Hims
Director, Mary Peate Show less

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