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The Portrait of a Lady

Portrait of a Lady: Innocence

Portrait of a Lady

Innocence

BBC Radio 4 - Portrait of a Lady, Innocence

Isabel Archer thinks she is in control of her fate, but others are pulling the strings.

Isabel Archer, a beautiful young woman, thinks she is in control of her fate.  With Anna Maxwell Martin and Robert Bathurst.

Young and beautiful, Isabel Archer thinks that she is in control of her fate. 

Little does she know, however, that others behind the scenes are pulling the strings.

Henry James's popular novel, dramatised in three parts by Rachel Joyce.

Isabel Archer ...... Anna Maxwell Martin
Madame Merle ...... Haydn Gwynne
Lord Warburton ...... Robert Bathurst 
Mrs Touchett ...... Gayle Hunnicutt 
Mr Touchett ...... Peter Marinker 
Ralph Touchett ...... Paul Venables 
Henrietta Stackpole ...... Laurel Lefkow 
Caspar Goodwood ...... Corey Johnson 
Mr Bantling ...... Dan Starkey 
Narrator ...... William Hope 

Pianist: Duncan Walsh Atkins

Director: Tracey Neale.

First broadcast in July 2008.

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Henry James's novel, dramatised by Rachel Joyce

Henry James's novel, dramatised by Rachel Joyce, about a young American girl in England

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