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Classic Serial: The Eustace Diamonds

Pippa Nixon

Alison Pettitt

Joseph Kloska

Adrian Scarborough

Lorelei King

Lydia Leonard

Mark Bonnar

Stella Gonet

Amy Morgan

Jamie Glover

Nicholas Boulton

Laura Hanna

Ellie Butters

Ella Dale

Rose Tremain

Gordon House

Classic Serial: The Eustace Diamonds: Episode 2

The Eustace Diamonds

Episode 2

BBC Radio 4 - Classic Serial, The Eustace Diamonds, Episode 2

The arrival of Lizzie Eustace's cousin Frank proves both diverting and scandalous.

Fighting to keep her diamond necklace, Lizzie broods in Scotland but her cousin's arrival proves diverting. Stars Pippa Nixon.

Rose Tremain's dramatisation of Anthony Trollope's The Eustace Diamonds 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.

Harpist: Cecilia De Maria
Cellist: Alison Baldwin

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

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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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