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Aisling Loftus

Nico Mirallegro

Jodie Comer

Emma Cunniffe

Christine Bottomley

Nadia Molinari

Linda Marshall Griffiths

Henry James: The Wings of the Dove: Episode 2

Love Henry James - The Wings of the Dove

Episode 2

The Wings of the Dove

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Kate and Merton can’t marry without money. Is the answer a job in New York?

Kate and Merton are deeply in love but can’t marry without money. Is the answer a job in New York? Stars Nico Mirallegro.

Kate and Merton are deeply in love but without money they cannot marry. Kate's aunt Maud forbids it.

When Merton is asked to go to New York by his newspaper editor they see an opportunity to play for time, but how will the cope with being apart?

Henry James's passionate and heart-breaking novel about desire and money.

Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths.

Kate Croy ..... Aisling Loftus 
Merton Densher ..... Nico Mirallegro
Milly Theale ..... Jodie Comer 
Maud Lowder ..... Emma Cunniffe 
Susie Stringham ..... Christine Bottomley 

Director: Nadia Molinari

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2018

Henry James: The Wings of the Dove

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Adaptation of Henry James's passionate and heartbreaking novel about desire and money.

Linda Marshall Griffiths dramatises Henry James's passionate and heartbreaking novel about desire and money.

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