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Uncle Silas

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Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas: Episode 1: 1. Knowl, 1864

Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas

Episode 1

Episode 1: 1. Knowl, 1864

1. Knowl, 1864

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas, 1. Knowl, 1864

Maud Knollyes discovers she's an heiress. Victorian melodrama with Teresa Gallagher.

Young Maud Knollyes discovers she's an heiress. Victorian gothic melodrama with Teresa Gallagher, Dorothy Tutin and Joan Sims.

Maud Knollyes is the daughter and heiress of a rich, eccentric recluse.  After he dies, young Maud is placed in the guardianship of her Uncle Silas. 

This is intended to be a public declaration of one man's confidence in his brother, for Silas was disgraced years before... 

Starring Teresa Gallagher.   

Sheridan le Fanu's Victorian gothic horror novel.    

Dramatised in three parts by Alan Drury.

Maud ... Teresa Gallagher
Austin.... Graham Crowden
Madame de la Rougierre ... Dorothy Tutin
Lady Monica Knollye ... Joan Sims
Mary Quince ... Kathleen Byron
Mrs Rusk ... Tessa Worsley
Dr Bryerley .... John Hartley
Dudley ... Jonathan Keeble
Tom Brice.... Roger May
Mr Grimston .... Geoffrey Whitehead
The Rough Fellow ....Stephen Critchlow

Pianist: Michael Haslam

Director: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in Ocotber 1995.

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George Cole and Teresa Gallagher star in a dramatisation of Sheridan le Fanu's novel.

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