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Headmistress Sarah Burton returns to 1930s Yorkshire for a challenging new post. Stars Sarah Lancashire and Philip Glenister.

Headmistress Sarah Burton returns to 1930s Yorkshire take up a challenging new post.

Winifred Holtby's (1898-1935) most famous novel "South Riding" was published posthumously in 1936.

It's a rich and memorable evocation of the characters of Yorkshire's South Riding, their lives, loves and sorrows.

Starring Sarah Lancashire.

Omnibus of one to five of fifteen episodes dramatised by Gill Adams.

Sarah Burton …… Sarah Lancashire
Robert Carne …… Philip Glenister
Mrs Beddows …… Carole Boyd

With:

Susan Cookson
Maggie Tagney
Donald McBride
Lucy Beaumont
Annmarie Hosell
Maya Foa

Director: Melanie Harris

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1999.

1 hour, 10 minutes

Last on

Mon 30 May 202202:20
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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