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1. The Matchmaker

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Emma Woodhouse is a woman so blessed by life that she declares she will never marry. Stars Eve Best and Robert Bathurst.

Emma Woodhouse - handsome, clever and rich - is a young woman so blessed by life that she declares she will never marry.

However, she is determined to find the right match for her new friend Harriet Smith...

Jane Austen's sparkling comedy of love and marriage, first published in 1815.

Starring Eve Best, Tom Hollander and Robert Bathurst.

Dramatised in two parts by April de Angelis.

Emma Woodhouse ...... Eve Best
Mr Elton ...... David Bamber
Mr Knightley ...... Robert Bathurst
Mr Woodhouse ...... Norman Rodway
Miss Bates ...... Marcia Warren
Mrs Weston ...... Patience Tomlinson
Harriet Smith ...... Ellie Beaven
Mr Weston ...... Andrew Wincott
Jane Fairfax ...... Beth Chalmers
Frank Churchill ...... Tom Hollander

Music: Martin Souter and Sarah Stowe

Director: Jonquil Panting

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2000.

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Tue 9 Dec 202505:00

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