Joseph Andrews

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Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding: 4.  Complications

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4.  Complications

Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding

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Joseph and Fanny are desperate to marry but complications arise...

Joseph and Fanny are desperate to marry  but explorations into her true identity raise complications. Stars June Barrie.

"The final part, containing several new matters, not expected"

Joseph and Fanny are desperate to marry, but explorations into her true identity raise complications.

Conclusion of Henry Fielding's 18th-century comic masterpiece about the morals and manners of high and low society.

Stars Cornelius Garrett

Dramatised by John Scotney.  

Joseph ...... Cornelius Garrett
Fanny ...... Jane Leonard 
Lady Booby ...... June Barrie
Parson Adams ...... John Franklyn-Robbins
Henry Fielding ...... John Rye 
Mrs Slipslop ...... Anne Jameson 
Pedlar ... Sean Barrett
Squire Booby ... Geoffrey Bateman
Gammar Andrews ... June Tobin
Lawyer Scout .... Trevor Nichols
Pamela .... Sarah Benfield
Beau Didapper .... Ronald Herdman

Director: Shaun MacLoughlin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1986.

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Drama: Classic & Period

Comedy: Satire

A comic masterpiece on the morals and manners of high and low society.

Henry Fielding's comic masterpiece is a riotous journey through the morals and manners of high and low society.

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