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Classic Serial: Samuel Richardson - Clarissa: The History of a Young Lady

Marilyn Imrie

Classic Serial: Samuel Richardson - Clarissa: The History of a Young Lady: Episode 1: The Pursuit

Clarissa: The History of a Young Lady

Episode 1

Episode 1: The Pursuit

Samuel Richardson - Clarissa: The History of a Young Lady

The Pursuit

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Heiress Clarissa Harlowe is dangerously attracted by notorious libertine Robert Lovelace.

4 Extra Debut. Beautiful young heiress Clarissa Harlowe is dangerously attracted by notorious libertine Robert Lovelace. Stars Zoe Waites, Richard Armitage.

Dramatisation by Hattie Naylor of the 1748 novel by Samuel Richardson. 

The beautiful young heiress Clarissa Harlowe is dangerously attracted by the wiles of the notorious libertine Robert Lovelace. Threatened by an imminent marriage arranged with the odious suitor her family have found for her, Lovelace persuades Clarissa to flee with him. 

Clarissa Harlowe ...... Zoe Waites
Robert Lovelace ...... Richard Armitage
James Harlowe ...... Oliver Milburn
Solmes ...... Stephen Critchlow
Bella Harlowe ...... Sophie Thompson
Lady Harlowe ...... Alison Steadman
Lord Harlowe ...... John Rowe
Mrs Norton ...... Deborah Findlay
Anna Howe ...... Cathy Sara

Directed by Marilyn Imrie

A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4.

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Dramatisation by Hattie Naylor of the 1748 novel by Samuel Richardson

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