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Wives and Daughters

Elizabeth Gaskell - Wives and Daughters: 2. A Crisis

Elizabeth Gaskell - Wives and Daughters

2. A Crisis

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17 year old Molly Gibson acquires a new step mother and step sister.

The prospect of a stepmother looms large on Molly's horizon. Starring Tom Wilkinson and Kathryn Hurlbutt.

"All I know is, that It's a very dangerous thing to shut two young men of one and three and twenty up in a country house like this with a girl of seventeen..."

The prospect of a stepmother looms large on Molly's horizon. 

Novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell.

Starring Tom Wilkinson and Kathryn Hurlbutt.

Dramatised by Barry Campbell.

Molly .... Kathryn Hurlbutt
Mr Gibson .... Tom Wilkinson
Clare .... Angela Pleasence
Squire Hamley .... Robert Lang
Mrs Hamley .... Lillias Walker
Roger Hamley .... Michael Troughton
Lady Cumnor …. Pauline Letts
Lord Cumnor …. Kerry Francis
Lady Harriet …. Marian Diamond
Lady Cuxhaven .... Anna Fox
Lord Hollingford …. Geoffrey Collins
Mary …. Pauline Siddle
Robinson …. Nigel Graham
Bulter …. David Peart
Mrs Gaskell .... Thelma Whiteley

Music composed by Rachel Portman

Director Jane Morgan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1983

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Molly Gibson is the only daughter of a widowed doctor who must spend time away from him.

Molly Gibson is the only daughter of a widowed doctor who must spend time away from him. Starring Kathryn Hurlbutt and Tom Wilkinson.

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