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2. A Crisis

Episode 2 of 9

The prospect of a stepmother looms large on Molly's horizon. Starring Tom Wilkinson and Kathryn Hurlbutt.

"All I know is, that it's a very dangerous thing to shut two young men of one and three and twenty up in a country house like this with a girl of seventeen..."

The prospect of a stepmother looms large on Molly's horizon.

Final novel written by 'Cranford' author, Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in 1866.

Starring Tom Wilkinson and Kathryn Hurlbutt.

Dramatised by Barry Campbell.

Molly .... Kathryn Hurlbutt
Mr Gibson .... Tom Wilkinson
Clare .... Angela Pleasence
Squire Hamley .... Robert Lang
Mrs Hamley .... Lillias Walker
Roger Hamley .... Michael Troughton
Lady Cumnor …. Pauline Letts
Lord Cumnor …. Kerry Francis
Lady Harriet …. Marian Diamond
Lady Cuxhaven .... Anna Fox
Lord Hollingford …. Geoffrey Collins
Mary …. Pauline Siddle
Robinson …. Nigel Graham
Bulter …. David Peart
Mrs Gaskell .... Thelma Whiteley

Music composed by Rachel Portman

Director Jane Morgan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1983

1 hour, 15 minutes

Last on

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