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Classic Serial: Edith Wharton - The Custom of the Country: Episode 2

Edith Wharton - The Custom of the Country

Episode 2

BBC Radio 4 - Classic Serial, Edith Wharton - The Custom of the Country, Episode 2

Leaving New York, Undine travels to Paris where she meets a charming French aristocrat.

Leaving her husband and child in New York, Undine travels to Paris where she meets a charming French aristocrat. Stars Rebecca Night and Lorelei King.

Dramatisation by Jane Rogers of Edith Wharton's 1913 satire of marriage and money in early-20th century American society. 

Leaving her husband and child in New York, Undine travels to Paris where she meets a charming French aristocrat.

Mrs Heeny ...... Lorelei King 
Elmer Moffatt ...... Tom Hollander 
Undine Spragg ...... Rebecca Night 
Mrs Spragg ...... Barbara Barnes
Abner Spragg ...... Jonathan Keeble 
Ralph Marvell ...... Dan Stevens 
Clare Van Degen ...... Lucy Gaskell
Peter Van Degan ...... William Houston
Mabel Lipscombe ...... Tessa Nicholson
Laura Fairford/Princess Estradina ...... Provence Maydew
Raymond De Chelles ...... Joseph Kloska

Directed by Nadia Molinari.

Classic Serial: Edith Wharton - The Custom of the Country

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Dramatisation of Edith Wharton's 1913 satire of marriage and money

Dramatisation by Jane Rogers of Edith Wharton's 1913 satire of marriage and money in early-20th century American society

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