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Night and Day

Virginia Woolf - Night and Day: Episode 2

Virginia Woolf - Night and Day

Episode 2

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Virginia Woolf - Night and Day, Episode 2

Katharine is engaged, but her secret admirer is also in Norfolk.

Katharine is engaged, but her secret admirer is also in Norfolk, invited by torn suffrage campaigner Mary. With Dervla Kirwan.

Katharine Hilbery is engaged to the eminently suitable, if faintly ridiculous, William Rodney. They’ve gone to Katharine's cousins in Norfolk for Christmas, where things are not going well.

Meanwhile, Katharine's secret admirer, solicitor and aspiring writer Ralph Denham has also gone to Norfolk for Christmas, at the invitation of Suffrage campaigner Mary Datchet. Mary’s been carrying a torch for Ralph, whilst wrestling with her desire for an independent life...

Narrator Kristin Scott Thomas concludes Virginia Woolf's comic novel set in pre-first world war London, challenging all assumptions about the nature of love.

Ralph Denham .... Jamie Glover
Katharine Hilbery    ......    Dervla Kirwan
Mary Datchet .... Susannah Corbett
William Rodney.... John MacKay
Mrs Hilbery..... Phyllida Nash
Mrs Seal..... Jacqueline Tong
Aunt Millicent..... June Barrie
Cassandra Otway    ......    Rebecca Smart 

Dramatised by Lavinia Greenlaw.

Produced at BBC Bristol by Kate McAll

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2003.

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Edwardian novel examining love marriage, happiness and success. With Kristin Scott Thomas.

Edwardian novel contrasting the daily lives and romantic attachments of two acquaintances, examining love marriage, happiness and success. With Kristin Scott Thomas.

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