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Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure: Episode 1: Marriages Remain

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Poor Wessex stonemason Jude aspires to the gleaming university spires of Christminster.

Poor Wessex stonemason Jude Fawley aspires to the gleaming university spires of Christminster. Starring Michael Pennington and Constance Chapman. From January 1986.

Sorrowful at the departure of his mentor and only friend, the local school master, 11-year-old Jude Fawley resolves that one day he'll follow his teacher to academia - as symbolised by the gleaming spires of distant Christminster. 

Growing up, however, Jude finds more obstacles in his path then merely difficulties of study...

Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel dramatised in six parts by Elizabeth North. 

Stars Michael Pennington as Jude Fawley, Mark Straker as Carter, June Barrie as Widow Edlin, Constance Chapman as Aunt Drusilla Fawley, Hazel Ellerby as Annie, John Normington as Phillotson, Elva Makins as Arabella, Jesse Lawrence as Young Jude, Esmond Rideout as Farmer Troutham and Richard Wasley as Tiler.

Produced at BBC Bristol by Brian Miller. 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1986.

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Last of Hardy's novels, featuring a young working-class man who dreams of being a scholar.

The last of Thomas Hardy's novels, a tale of class, education, religion and marriage featuring a young working-class man who dreams of being a scholar. Stars Michael Pennington and Elizabeth Garvie.

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