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Virginia Woolf - Night and Day: Episode 1

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Episode 1

Virginia Woolf - Night and Day

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Katherine and Mary are challenged over their assumptions about love.

Katherine and Mary are challenged over their assumptions about love in pre-First World War London. With Kristin Scott Thomas.

Katherine Hilbery, grand-daughter of a great Victorian poet, is forced to choose between her engagement to the eminently suitable William Rodney, and her attraction to Ralph Denham, with whom she feels a more profound and disturbing affinity.

Meanwhile, Suffrage campaigner Mary Datchet has also fallen for Ralph - and she too must decide between her feelings and her dedication to the Women's Suffrage movement. 

Kristin Scott Thomas narrates Virginia Woolf's comic novel set in pre-First World War London, challenging all assumptions about the nature of love.

Dramatised in two parts by Lavinia Greenlaw.

Katharine Hilbery .... Dervla Kirwan
Ralph Denham .... Jamie Glover
Mary Datchet .... Susannah Corbett
William Rodney.... John MacKay
Mrs Hilbery..... Phyllida Nash 
Mr Hilbery.... Jonathan Nibbs
 Mr Clacton..... Paul Nicholson 
Mrs Seal..... Jacqueline Tong 
Aunt Millicent..... June Barrie 
Henry Otway .... Mark Meadows 

Produced at BBC Bristol by Kate McAll 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2003.

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Edwardian novel examining love marriage, happiness and success. With Kristin Scott Thomas.

Edwardian novel contrasting the daily lives and romantic attachments of two acquaintances, examining love marriage, happiness and success. With Kristin Scott Thomas.

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