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Susan Hill - Gentleman and Ladies

Susan Hill - Gentleman and Ladies: Episode 1

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The ties, friendships and loneliness of a family living in a small Midland village.

The ties, friendships and loneliness of a family living in a small Midland village. Stars Patricia Hayes and Stephanie Cole.

The funeral of Faith Lavender, spinster of the parish, is attended by her family and friends and by one stranger - a man named Hubert Gaily, who never met Faith in his life... 

Susan Hill's novel of family ties, friendship and loneliness, set in the small Midland village of Haverstock.  

Starring Patricia Hayes as Eleanor Thorne, Gwen Watford as Dorothea Shottery, Stephanie Cole as Alida Thorne and Sian Phillips as Isabel Lavender. 

Adapted by Bill Matthews. 
Music by Peter Salem
Producer: Lissa Evans

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993.

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The ties, friendships and loneliness of a family living in a small Midland village

The ties, friendships and loneliness of a family living in a small Midland village. Stars Patricia Hayes and Stephanie Cole

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