Phoebe Junior

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Phoebe Junior by Margaret Oliphant: 2. A New Gentleman

Margaret Oliphant - Phoebe Junior

2. A New Gentleman

Phoebe Junior by Margaret Oliphant

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Phoebe Junior by Margaret Oliphant, 2. A New Gentleman

A shock awaits Phoebe Beecham when she arrives in Carlingford to visit her grandmother.

A shock awaits Phoebe Beecham when she arrives in Carlingford to visit her sick Grandmother. Stars Charlotte Attenborough.

Phoebe Beecham has met Clarence Copperhead at a London ball but his wealthy father disapproves.   

She fortuitously leaves London to visit her sick grandmother in Carlingford - but gets a shock on arrival... 

Stars Elizabeth Spriggs.

Margaret Oliphant's sequel to Miss Marjoribanks, first published in 1876..

Dramatised by Elizabeth Proud.

Mrs Oliphant... Elizabeth Spriggs
Phoebe, Junior... Charlotte Attenborough
Clarence Copperhead... MIchael Onslow
Copperhead.... Timothy West
Mrs Copperhead... Elizabeth Proud
Mr Beecham.... Norman Bird
Phoebe, Snr... Ann Windsor
Tozer.... John Hollis
Ursula .... Cathy Sara
Mr May ... Peter Jeffrey
Janey May.... Fiona Christie
Reginald May... Richard Derrington
Sir Robert Dorset.... David King
Ann Dorset.... Sunny Ormonde
Sophy Dorset... Oona Beeson

Producer: Sue Wilson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1994.

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Saga of English provincial life in the country town of Carlingford. With Elizabeth Spriggs

The fifth and final volume of Mrs Oliphant's saga of English provincial life, set in the country town of Carlingford. With Elizabeth Spriggs.

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