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Wilkie Collins - No Name: 3. June 1847

Wilkie Collins - No Name

3. June 1847

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Aided by the swindler Captain Wragge, Magdalen is determined to retrieve her inheritance.

Aided by the swindler Captain Wragge, Magdalen is determined to retrieve her inheritance from cousin Noel. Stars Eleanor Bron.

Magdalen, with the aid of the swindler Captain Wragge, is determined to get back her inheritance from her cousin Noel. 

Wilkie Collins’ novel dramatised by Ray Jenkins. 

Magdalen Vanstone ...... Sophie Thompson
Captain Wragge ...... Jack May 
Norah Vanstone ...... Elizabeth Mansfield 
Frank Clare ...... Paul Downing 
Mrs Wragge ...... Vivian Pickles
Landlady ...... Susan Sheridan
Vicar ...... Joe Dunlop 
Lizzie ...... Alice Arnold 
Mrs Lecount ...... Eleanor Bron
Noel Vanstone ...... Nigel Anthony
Captain Kirke ...... Robin Ellis 
Narrator ...... Philip Sully

Music by Peter Brewis and played by Maurice Cambridge.  

Director: Janet Whitaker

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1989.

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