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Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure: Episode 3: The Curse of Consciousness

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Episode 3: The Curse of Consciousness

The Curse of Consciousness

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Jude's deepening relationship with his cousin Sue threatens her teaching career.

Jude's deepening relationship with his cousin Sue threatens her teaching career. Stars Michael Pennington and Elizabeth Garvie. From February 1986.

Rebuffed from going to college at Christminster, Jude learns he may train for the priesthood elsewhere - perhaps at Melchester, where his cousin Sue has become a teacher. 

Denied the possibility of courting her due to his marriage to Arabella, Jude can't resist travelling to Melchester to be near her....

Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel dramatised in six parts by Elizabeth North. 

Stars Michael Pennington as Jude Fawley, John Normington as Phillotson, Constance Chapman as Aunt Drusilla Fawley, Elizabeth Garvie as Sue Bridehead, Brian Jackson as Tinker Taylor, Elva Makins as Arabella, Anthony Morse as Parson, Alexa Romanes as the Landlady, Melvyn Bedford as the Shepherd and Abigail Docherty, Adele Griffiths and Bob Docherty as the children.

Produced at BBC Bristol by Brian Miller.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1986.

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Last of Hardy's novels, featuring a young working-class man who dreams of being a scholar.

The last of Thomas Hardy's novels, a tale of class, education, religion and marriage featuring a young working-class man who dreams of being a scholar. Stars Michael Pennington and Elizabeth Garvie.

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