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Wilkie Collins - No Name: 5. August 1847

Wilkie Collins - No Name

5. August 1847

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Will Magdalen wed her cousin Noel and regain her inheritance? Can Mrs Lecount outwit her?

Will Magdalen marry her loathed cousin Noel to try and regain her inheritance? Can Mrs Lecount outwit her? Stars Nigel Anthony.

Will Magdalen marry her cousin Noel, whom she loathes, in order to try and regain her inheritance?

Wilkie Collins’ novel dramatised by Ray Jenkins. 

Magdalen Vanstone ...... Sophie Thompson
Captain Wragge ...... Jack May 
Miss Garth ...... Kathleen Helme  
Norah Vanstone    ......    Elizabeth Mansfield
Noel Vanstone ...... Nigel Anthony
Mrs Wragge ...... Vivian Pickles
Mrs Lecount ...... Eleanor Bron
Pendril ...... John Moffatt
Admiral Bartram ......  Alan MacNaughtan 
George Bartram ...... Christopher Scott 
Louisa ...... Susan Sheridan
Coachman ...... Joe Dunlop 
Loscombe ...... Christopher Good
Servant ...... Jo Kendall
Narrator ...... Philip Sully

Music by Peter Brewis and played by Maurice Cambridge.  

Director: Janet Whitaker

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1989.

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