Curious, If True

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Elizabeth Gaskell - Curious, If True: The Poor Clare

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Elizabeth Gaskell - Curious, If True

The Poor Clare

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Investigating the heir to a fortune, a lawyer is drawn towards a woman haunted by a curse.

Investigating the heir to a fortune - a young lawyer is drawn towards a woman haunted by a curse. Stars Elizabeth Spriggs.

1727:  Investigating the heir to a substantial fortune, a young lawyer is drawn towards a young woman haunted by a mother's curse - and apparently possessed by a strange, dark force...

Elizabeth Gaskell's collection of intriguing 'true"' tales dramatised by Sally Hedges. 

Mrs Gaskell ...... Elizabeth Spriggs
Philip ...... Kim Wall 
Bridget ...... Janet Dale
Lucy ...... Kathryn Hunt 
Bernard ...... William Simons 

With Mary Wimbush, Christopher Scott, Sandra Berkin, Martin Head and Nick Aikens.

Producer: Nigel Bryant 

An Armada production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in October 1998.

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Atmospheric tale from Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell

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