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15 Minute Drama: Elizabeth Gaskell - Wives and Daughters

15 Minute Drama: Elizabeth Gaskell - Wives and Daughters: Episode 1

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Wives and Daughters

Episode 1

Elizabeth Gaskell - Wives and Daughters

BBC Radio 4 - 15 Minute Drama, Elizabeth Gaskell - Wives and Daughters, Episode 1

Young Molly Gibson prepares for an exciting day at the Hollingford gala.

4 Extra Debut. Young Molly Gibson prepares for an exciting day at the Hollingford gala. 1820s story of provincial life. Stars Deborah McAndrew.

Episode One

It's an exciting day for young Molly Gibson as she prepares for her first visit to the Hollingford gala. But her experience there gives her widowed father Dr Gibson a new idea. Elizabeth' Gaskell's classic novel of everyday provincial life in the 1820s is dramatised by Theresa Heskins.

Lily Gaskell . . . . . Deborah McAndrew
Molly Gibson . . . . . Emerald O'Hanrahan
Dr Gibson . . . . . Jamie Newall
Hyacinth Kirkpatrick . . . . . Julia Hills
Lady Cumnor . . . . . Claire Neilson
Dorothy Browning . . . . . Marian Kemmer
Phoebe Browning . . . . . Susan Jeffrey
Mrs Goodenough . . . . . Kate Layden
Coxe . . . . . Henry Devas
Wynne . . . . Iain Batchelor
Bethia/Miss Rose . . . . . Toni Midlane
Squire Hamley . . . . . Paul Greenwood
Mrs Hamley . . . . . Jilly Bond
Roger Hamley . . . . . Gunnar Cauthery
Cynthia . . . . . Maya Barcot

Produced and directed by Peter Leslie Wild


Notes

Wives and Daughters was written in the 1860s and serialised in the Cornhill Magazine. It is set in the 1820s and deals to a large extent with the position of women in Society. Elizabeth Gaskell left it unfinished, so any dramatiser of the novel is faced with guessing the intended outcome of the story.

Theresa Heskins previously adapted Lady Audley's Secret for the Woman's Hour serial, and has adapted Bleak House and Great Expectations for the New Vic Theatre, North Staffordshire, where she is Artistic Director.

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A new dramatisation by Theresa Heskins of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel of provincial life

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