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Classic Serial: The Eustace Diamonds

Pippa Nixon

Jamie Glover

Nicholas Boulton

Richenda Carey

Stella Gonet

Joseph Kloska

Amy Morgan

Malcolm Sinclair

Alison Pettit

Sam Kelly

Stephen Critchlow

Alex Waldmann

Laura Hanna

Ellie Butters

Ella Dale

Rose Tremain

Gordon House

Classic Serial: The Eustace Diamonds: Episode 1

The Eustace Diamonds

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 - Classic Serial, The Eustace Diamonds, Episode 1

Lizzie Eustace must fight to retain the diamonds which she believes are rightfully hers.

4 Extra Debut. Beautiful Lizzie Eustace must fight to retain the dazzling diamonds which she believes are rightfully hers. Stars Pippa Nixon.

Rose Tremain's dramatisation of Anthony Trollope's enthralling novel stars Pippa Nixon as the beautiful Lizzie Eustace, fighting to retain possession of her magnificent diamond necklace, which she claims was left to her, as a gift, by her late husband Florian. 

Her immediate relatives, spurred on by the intransigent family lawyer, Camperdown, argue that the diamonds are an heirloom, and on no account can be retained by her. The dispute colours all Lizzie's subsequent relationships - with her cousin Frank, her new lover Lord Fawn, and her admirer Lord George. As gossip and scandal intensify, Lizzie is driven to increasingly desperate behaviour in an attempt to retain her jewels.

Original Music: Lucinda Mason Brown
Produced and directed by Gordon House
A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4

Harpist: Cecilia De Maria
Cellist: Alison Baldwin.

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Anthony Trollope's enthralling novel about beautiful but deceitful widow Lizzie Eustace

Anthony Trollope's enthralling novel is dramatised by Rose Tremain. Beautiful but deceitful widow Lizzie Eustace fights to retain jewels she claims are rightfully hers

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