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AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet: The Virgin in the Garden, Part 5/8

AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet

The Virgin in the Garden, Part 5/8

BBC Radio 4 Extra - AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet, The Virgin in the Garden, Part 5/8

Bill Potter has trouble accepting his daughter's desire to marry curate Daniel.

In coronation year, Bill Potter has trouble accepting his daughter's desire to marry curate Daniel. Stars Geoffrey Whitehead.

In the year of Queen Elizabeth's coronation, Bill Potter has difficulty in accepting his daughter Stephanie's desire to marry the local curate, Daniel Orton

The Virgin in the Garden is the first of four AS Byatt novel adaptations chronicling the lives of the Potter family, set against the social and political landscape of England of 1953-1970.

Older Frederica …. Rosemary Leach
Young Frederica ….  Hannah Watkins
Bill …. Geoffrey Whitehead
Winifred …. Barbara Flynn
Stephanie ….  Helen Longworth
Daniel …. Shaun Dooley
Mrs. Thone …. Sandra Clark
Alexander …. Adam Kotz
Mrs. Orton …. Bridget Turner

All four novels dramatised in 30 parts by John Harvey.

Producer: Mary Peate.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2002.

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John Harvey's 30-part dramatisation of AS Byatt's novels about the Potter family

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