Anna of the Five Towns

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Arnold Bennett - Anna of the Five Towns

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Anna Tellwright inherits a fortune and provokes her father.

Anna Tellwright inherits a fortune and provokes her father. 19th-century love, tyranny and rebellion. Stars Charlotte Riley.

Arnold Bennett's powerful story of love, tyranny and rebellion set against the vitality and harshness of life in the Staffordshire Potteries in the late 19th century.

Brought up in the repressive tradition of Methodism by her miserly father, Anna Tellwright dreams of independence and freedom. 

On coming of age she learns that she is to inherit a fortune and realises that she is loved by the charismatic Henry Mynors. 

But with the money comes responsibility and a growing bond with one of her tenants William Price.

Stars Charlotte Riley.

Dramatised in two parts by Helen Edmundson.

Anna.....Charlotte Riley
Tellwright.....David Schofield
Young Agnes.....Emilia Harker
William Price.....Michael Socha
Titus Price.....James Masters
Henry Mynors.....Lee Williams
Beatrice/Older Agnes.....Rosina Carbone
Mrs Sutton.....Olwen May 
Revivalist.....Andrew Westfield
Sarah Vodrey.....Jacqueline Redgwell

Director:  Nadia Molinari

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2011.

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