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Daughters of the Vicar

DH Lawrence - Daughters of the Vicar

Drama: Relationships & Romance

19/02/2000

BBC Radio 4 Extra - DH Lawrence - Daughters of the Vicar

Classic tale of the struggle between emotion and intellect with Rachel Atkins.

Impoverished sisters - Louisa and Mary - must choose lives governed either by emotion or intellect. Stars Rachel Atkins.

Louisa and Mary, daughters of the impoverished vicar of Aldecross, see only marriage as a means of escape from their routine lives.
 
The arrival of a new young curate fills them with anticipation, but will his intellectual qualities match up to the more physical attractions of Alfred Durant, the son of a local miner?
 
DH Lawrence's novella - written at around the same time as Sons and Lovers - is a classic tale of the struggle between emotion and intellect.
 
Louisa    ......    Rachel Atkins
Mary    ......    Cathy Sara
Mrs Lindley    ......    Gillian Goodman 
Mr Lindley    ......    David Timson
Mr Massey    ......    Robert Pickavance  
Alfred Durant    ......    Peter Meakin
Mrs Durant    ......    Ann Rye
Miner    ......    Sean Connolly

Dramatised by Jane Beeson.
 
Director: Peter Leslie Wild.
 
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2000.

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