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15 Minute Drama: Elizabeth Gaskell - Wives and Daughters

15 Minute Drama: Elizabeth Gaskell - Wives and Daughters: Episode 8

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Wives and Daughters

Episode 8

Elizabeth Gaskell - Wives and Daughters

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Tongues are beginning to wag about Mr Preston and an unidentified young lady.

Tongues are beginning to wag about Mr Preston and an unidentified young lady. Stars Deborah McAndrew and Timothy Watson.

Episode Eight

With Roger away in Africa, Hyacinth and Cynthia take a trip to London for a few days. Molly relishes the time alone with her father, but the town gossips are whispering about the mysterious Mr Preston and an unidentified young lady. 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
Roger Hamley . . . . . Gunnar Cauthery
Cynthia . . . . . Maya Barcot
Hyacinth . . . . . Julia Hills
Lady Harriett . . . . . Cathy Sara
Dorothy Browning . . . . . Marian Kemmer
Phoebe Browning . . . . . Susan Jeffrey
Mr Preston . . . . . Timothy Watson

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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