The Absentee

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Maria Edgeworth - The Absentee: Episode 1

Maria Edgeworth - The Absentee

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Maria Edgeworth - The Absentee, Episode 1

Lady Clonbrony wants her son to make a good marriage.

Lady Clonbrony wants her son to make a good marriage, but his affections are not to be bought. Stars Stephen Rea and Anna Healy.

Lady Clonbrony, determined to be accepted by fashionable London society, has sunk her family into debt to the moneylender, Mordecai. 

She wants her son to make a good marriage.

But his affections are not to be bought. 

Maria Edgeworth's novel - first published in 1812. 

Starring Stephen Rea and Anna Healy. 

Dramatised in two parts by Nick McCarty. 

Lord Colambre... Stephen Rea
Grace Nugent... Anna Healy
Lord Clonbrony... TP McKenna
Lady Clonbrony... Francine Mulrooney
Whipp ... Ben Onwukwe
Paddy/Larry... Billy Boyle
Sir Terence O'Fay ... James Berwick
Moredecai ... Terence Edmond
Sir James Brooke ... David Bannerman

With:  

Fraser Kerr
Danielle Allan
Emma Gregory
Jenny Howe
Elizabeth Kelly
Auriol Smith
Ian Lindsay
Andrew Wincott

Producer: Claire Grove 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1991.

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Stephen Rea and Anna Healy star in the classic Anglo-Irish drama about class pretensions

Stephen Rea and Anna Healy star in the classic Anglo-Irish drama about class pretensions, published in 1812

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