The Portrait of a Lady

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Isabel has been married for three years, but she is about to discover a startling truth.

Isabel marries the handsome, urbane Gilbert Osmond but she is about to discover a startling truth. Stars Anna Maxwell Martin.

Isabel has been married to the handsome and urbane Gilbert Osmond for three years. 

Like a sparkling and brilliant jewel, she is part of his collection of beautiful things, but she is about to discover a startling truth.

Conclusion of Henry James's novel, dramatised by Rachel Joyce.

Isabel Archer ...... Anna Maxwell Martin
Madame Merle ...... Haydn Gwynne
Lord Warburton ...... Robert Bathurst 
Mrs Touchett ...... Gayle Hunnicutt 
Gilbert Osmond ...... Colin Stinton
Ralph Touchett ...... Paul Venables 
Henrietta Stackpole ...... Laurel Lefkow 
Caspar Goodwood ...... Corey Johnson 
Countess Gemini ...... Barbara Barnes
Edward Rosier ...... Nyasha Hatendi
Mother Catherine ...... Joan Walker 
Narrator ...... William Hope 

Pianist: Duncan Walsh Atkins

Director: Tracey Neale.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2008.

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Henry James's novel, dramatised by Rachel Joyce

Henry James's novel, dramatised by Rachel Joyce, about a young American girl in England

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