The Mill On The Floss

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George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss: 1. The Unresting Wheel

The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot

1. The Unresting Wheel

George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss

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Anna Maxwell Martin narrates George Eliot's story of grand passions and tormented lives.

An absorbing tragedy of family discord with a brother and sister pitted against one another in love and life. Stars Will Kirk.

George Eliot’s novel of grand passions and tormented lives.

A brother and sister, pitted against one another in love and life.  

An absorbing tragedy of family discord and financial ruin, of sibling love and bitterness.  

And a powerful tale of desire, betrayal and moral conflict.

Dramatised in ten parts 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
Maggie …... Joanna Vanderham
Tom …... Will Kirk
Lucy …... Ell Potter
Philip …... Chris Lew Kum Hoi
Stephen …... Jack Farthing
Mrs Moss …... Heather Craney
Mr Wakem …... John Dougall
Mrs Glegg …...  Elizabeth Counsell, 
Mr Stelling …... John Lightbody,
Dr Kenn …... Hasan Dixon
Luke/Bob …... Kurtis Lowe
Keiza/Sally …... Bettrys Jones

George Eliot's most autobiographical novel draws on her personal pain at the loss of the close bond with her brother who had cut off all contact with her.  

It resulted in one of the great novels of childhood, and one of literature's most unforgettable heroines.  

Like Anne of Green Gables and Jane Eyre, Maggie captures the dilemma of being the clever girl in the family, the ugly duckling, the misplaced foundling who longs to be recognised for the genius she secretly knows herself to be.

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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