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Wilkie Collins - No Name: Episode 1: 1. March 1846

Wilkie Collins - No Name

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Episode 1: 1. March 1846

1. March 1846

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A mystery letter - but what is the secret of Magdalen and Norah Vanstone's parents?

A mystery letter from New Orleans. But what is the secret of Magdalen and Norah Vanstone's parents? Stars Sophie Thompson.

A mysterious letter from New Orleans arrives to disturb the untroubled existence of Combe Raven House in West Somersetshire. 

What is the secret being kept by Mr and Mrs Vanstone from their devoted daughters, Magdalen and Norah? 

Published in 1862, Wilkie Collins novel dramatised in six parts by Ray Jenkins. 

Magdalen Vanstone    ......    Sophie Thompson
Captain Wragge    ......    Jack May 
Norah Vanstone    ......    Elizabeth Mansfield 
Miss Garth    ......    Kathleen Helme  
Mrs Vanstone    ......     Jo Kendall 
Mr Vanstone    ......    Michael Graham Cox
Mr Clare    ......    Peter Woodthorpe
Frank Clare    ......    Paul Downing  
Manager    ......    Christopher Good
Miss Marable    ......    Susan Sheridan
Mrs Marable    ......    Joanna Mackie 
Mr Pendril    ......    John Moffatt
Narrator    ......    Philip Sully

Music by Peter Brewis and played by Maurice Cambridge.  

Director: Janet Whitaker 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1989.

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The battles of two sisters in 19th-century Victorian England.

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