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Saturday Drama: Frances Iles - Before the Fact

Before the Fact

20/04/2013

Frances Iles - Before the Fact

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Lina agrees to marry a charming stranger, but is he all that he seems?

4 Extra Debut. Lina agrees to marry a charming stranger, but is he all that he seems? Dramatisation of the novel on which Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion was based. From April 2013.

Emilia Fox, Ben Caplan and Patricia Hodge star in a dramatisation of the novel that Alfred Hitchcock based his film, 'Suspicion' on.

Set in the early 1930s, Emilia Fox plays the part of Lina - a girl in her late twenties, from a wealthy family. In danger of becoming a spinster, life changes for the better when Lina meets Johnnie Aysgarth, a charming stranger who proposes marriage. Johnnie saves Lina from a boring life with her parents and whisks her off on an extravagant honeymoon. But on their return Lina begins to discover that Johnnie is not all he seems. His gambling threatens to ruin them but is her growing suspicion that he is also a murderer founded on reality or her imagination?


BEFORE THE FACT
By FRANCES ILES
Dramatised for radio by RONALD FRAME

Producer/Director: David Ian Neville.

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