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1. Old Friends and New Meetings

Jane Austen Persuasion
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Anne Elliott meets her fianc茅 Fredrick Wentworth again after eight years apart. Stars Juliet Stevenson and Tim Brierley.

It's 1814 in the village of Uppercross in Somersetshire. Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall has long since given up any hope of his daughter making a favourable marriage.

But Anne did fall in love, eight years ago, with Frederick Wentworth, a young man with no fortune and no family connections. She was persuaded to give him up - and he's not forgiven her...

Starring Juliet Stevenson and Sorcha Cusack

Jane Austen's classic novel, first published in 1817.

Dramatised in three parts by Michelene Wandor.

Anne Elliot 鈥�. Juliet Stevenson
Jane Austen 鈥�. Sorcha Cusack
Captain Wentworth 鈥�. Tim Brierley
Sir Walter Elliot 鈥�. Roger Hume
Elizabeth Elliot 鈥�. Claire Faulconbridge
Mr Elliot 鈥�. Peter Harlowe
Mary Musgrove 鈥�. Kathryn Hurlbutt
Charles Musgrove 鈥�. Alister Cameron
Little Charles 鈥�. John Abell
Henrietta Musgrove 鈥�. Alison Dowling
Louisa Musgrove 鈥�. Jayne Dowell
Mrs Musgrove 鈥�. Sheila Grant
Lady Russell 鈥�. Patricia Gallimore
Admiral Croft 鈥�. Jeffery Dench
Sophia Croft 鈥�. Tina Gray
Mrs Clay 鈥�. Hedli Niklaus
Mrs Smith 鈥�. Carole Boyd
Mr Shepherd 鈥�. Stephen Hancock
Charles Hayter 鈥�. Clive Marlowe
Captain Harville 鈥�. Paul Alexander
Captain Benwick 鈥�. Tony Turner

Square piano (William Rolfe and Sons c 1810) played by Kenneth Mobbs

Directed at 91福利社 Pebble Mill by Vanessa Whitburn.

First broadcast on 91福利社 Radio 4 in December 1986.

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