The Mill On The Floss

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George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss: 2. The Little Wench

The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot

2. The Little Wench

George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss

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Life’s beginning to change for Maggie and Tom.

Life’s beginning to change for Maggie and Tom with overheard mutterings at the Tulliver House. Narrated by Anna Maxwell Martin.

It's Easter and the aunts and uncles have been invited to the Mill.

So they may hear of Mr Tulliver's plans to send Tom away to school.

George Eliot's most autobiographical novel of grand passions and tormented lives.

Dramatised by Rhiannon Tise.

George Eliot, the Narrator .….. Anna Maxwell Martin
Young Maggie …... Amy-Jayne Leigh
Young Tom …... Oliver Zetterstrom
Young Lucy …... Grace Doherty
Mr Tulliver …... Roger Ringrose
Mrs Tulliver …... Alison Belbin
Mrs Moss …... Heather Craney
Mrs Glegg …...  Elizabeth Counsell, 
Mr Glegg ...... John Dougall
Mrs Deane ...... Ell Potter
Keiza/Sally …... Bettrys Jones

Director: Tracey Neale 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2020.

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10-part dramatisation of George Eliot's semi-autobiographical novel of Victorian childhood

10-part dramatisation of George Eliot's semi-autobiographical novel of the Victorian childhood of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, siblings growing up at Dorlcote Mill on the River Floss.

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