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1. Encounter

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A chance meeting with a strange woman dressed in white sparks a mystery for Walter Hartright. Stars Toby Stephens.

Walter Hartright meets a strange woman dressed in white as he returns home across London's Hampstead Heath late one night.

He's about to travel north to take up a post as drawing master to two young ladies.

Little does he realise how this chance encounter and his new position are inextricably linked.

Wilkie Collins's Victorian thriller was one of the best-selling novels of the 19th century.

Starring Toby Stephens and Juliet Aubrey.

Dramatised in four episodes by Martyn Wade.

Walter Hartright ...... Toby Stephens
Marian Halcombe ...... Juliet Aubrey
Laura Fairlie ...... Emily Bruni
Sir Percival Glyde ...... Jeremy Clyde
Anne Catherick ...... Alice Hart
Mr Gilmore ...... Sean Baker
Pesca ...... Ioan Meredith
Frederick Fairlie ...... Edward Petherbridge
Mr Dempster ...... Jonathan Keeble
Jacob ...... Oliver Cookson

Music: Elizabeth Parker

Director: Cherry Cookson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2001.

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