Episode 1
Toby Stephens reads John Galsworthy's tale of obsessive love and thwarted passion. Anna has fallen for one of her husband's students.
Toby Stephens reads John Galsworthy's tale of obsessive love and thwarted passion, set in the late-19th century and charting 30 years in the life and loves of a young man, Mark Lennan.
Anna has fallen for one of her husband's students, and cannot resist when her husband suggest they take the boy on holiday.
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- Mon 29 Dec 200822:45BBC Radio 4
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