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Thomas Hardy - The Return of the Native: 1. Waiting

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Thomas Hardy - The Return of the Native

1. Waiting

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As Eustacia Vye waits for her erstwhile lover Damon, his fiancee Tamsin has been jilted.

As Eustacia Vye waits on Egdon Heath for her former lover Damon Wildeve, his fiancee Tamsin Yeobright has been jilted. Stars Emma Fielding.

While Eustacia Vye waits on Egdon Heath for her erstwhile lover Damon Wildeve , his fiancee Tamsin Yeobright has been jilted at the altar. 

Thomas Hardy’s 1878 Wessex novel about love and longing dramatised in three-parts by David Calcutt. 

David Calder stars as Thomas Hardy,  Emma Fielding as Eustacia Vye,  Adam Godley as Clym Yeobright, Timothy Watson as Damon Wildeve,  Ben Crowe as Diggory Venn,  Cathy Sara as Tamsin Yeobright,  Annette Badland as Mrs Yeobright,  Gerry Hinks as Granfer Cantle, Stephen Tomlin as Timothy Fairway, Sunny Ormonde as Susan Nunsuch, Ben Tibber as Johnny Nunsuch, Martin Reeve as Humphrey, Oliver Hembrough as Christian Cantle and Martyn Read as Captain Vye.

Traditional music arranged and performed by Chris Leslie 

Director: Rosemary Watts

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005.

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Hardy's tale of the hopes and disappointments of the folk of Egdon Heath.

Hardy's tale of the hopes and disappointments of the folk of Egdon Heath. Dramatised in three parts by David Calcutt.

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