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The Age of Innocence  

Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence: Episode 1

Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 - Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence, Episode 1

Life takes an unexpected turn when Newland Archer meets his fiancee's cousin.

Life takes an unexpected turn when Newland Archer meets his fiancee's unconventional cousin. Stars Kellie Bright.

Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland, but his life takes an unexpected turn when he meets May's unconventional cousin Countess Ellen Olenska.

Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a passionate life-long love affair which breaks all the rules of the restrictive high society of 1870's New York. 

Dramatised in two parts by  Jane Rogers.

 Newland Archer .... Ryan McCluskey
 Ellen Olenska .... Susan Lynch
 May Welland ... Kellie Bright
 Augusta Welland .... Lorelei King
 Sillerton Jackson/Riviere ..... Kerry Shale
 Julius Beaufort .... Conrad Nelson
 Lawrence .... Martin T Sherman 

Director: Nadia Molinari

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2008.

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Edith Wharton's prize-winning novel, dramatised by Jane Rogers, set in 1870s New York.

Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, dramatised by Jane Rogers, about a passionate love affair which breaks all the rules of the restrictive high society of 1870s New York.

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