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Penelope Wilton

Lyndsey Marshal

Jasmine Hyde

Lizzy Watts

Joseph Kloska

Jonquil Panting

Kate Clanchy

Zena Forster

Margaret `Oliphant

Hester by Margaret Oliphant: 3. Lady Ellen

3. Lady Ellen

Hester by Margaret Oliphant

BBC Radio 4 - Hester by Margaret Oliphant, 3. Lady Ellen

Hester reckons without the influence of her wayward cousin Edward's vapid wife Ellen.

Hester involves her wayward cousin and his uninspiring wife in the running of the family bank. Stars Jasmine Hyde.

Penelope Wilton and Lyndsey Marshal star in this high Victorian tale of a woman who runs her own bank.  

Hester Vernon, having invited her disgraced cousin to be her junior in the bank, finds his ambition for growth hard to control and there is also his wife - Lady Ellen - to take into account.

Margaret Oliphant's novel first published in 1883.

Dramatised by Kate Clanchy & Zena Forster.

Margaret Oliphant .... Penelope Wilton
Hester Vernon .... Lyndsey Marshal
Lady Ellen .... Jasmine Hyde
Catherine Vernon .... Lizzy Watts
Edward Vernon .... Joseph Kloska

Director: Jonquil Panting

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2014.

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The tale of a 19th-century woman who runs her own bank.

The tale of a single woman in a 19th-century Cheshire town who runs her own bank. Series dramatised by Kate Clanchy and Zena Forster.

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