Curious, If True

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Elizabeth Gaskell - Curious, If True: The Squire's Story

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Elizabeth Gaskell - Curious, If True

The Squire's Story

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Elizabeth Gaskell - Curious, If True, The Squire's Story

Mr Higgins appears every inch the perfect jovial gentleman.

Mr Higgins appears every inch the perfect jovial gentleman, but his strange manners arouse suspicion. Stars Elizabeth Spriggs.

1849: Mr Higgins appears every inch the perfect jovial gentleman. 

But his strange manners - not to mention a tendency to disappear - suggest a less ordinary source for his comfortable lifestyle. 

Elizabeth Gaskell's collection of intriguing "true" tales dramatised by Sally Hedges. 

Mrs Gaskell    ......    Elizabeth Spriggs
Miss Pratt    ......    Angela Thorne  
Higgins    ......    Michael Lumsden
Squire Hearn    ......    Peter Jeffrey
Sir Harry    ......    Michael Tudor Barnes

With Andrew Harrison, Simon Carter, Brett Usher, Jonathan Wyatt and Nick Aikens.

Producer: Nigel Bryant 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1998.

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Atmospheric tale from Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell

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