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1. The Young Lady in Black

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1875: Carlingford jealousies and rivalries, as Mrs Oliphant returns to focus on Phoebe Beecham's family. With Elizabeth Spriggs.

Mrs Oliphant wrote her last chapter of the Chronicles of Carlingford when Lucilla Marjoribanks married Tom.

It's now 1875 and Mrs Oliphant returns to the town to focus on Phoebe Beecham's family - with the jealousies and rivalries of Carlingford between the Church and the Dissenters and Society and its shopkeepers.

Margaret Oliphant's sequel to Miss Marjoribanks, first published in 1876.

Dramatised in four parts by Elizabeth Proud.

Mrs Oliphant... Elizabeth Spriggs
Phoebe, Junior... Charlotte Attenborough
Clarence Copperhead... MIchael Onslow
Copperhead.... Timothy West
Mrs Copperhead... Elizabeth Proud
Mr Beecham.... Norman Bird
Phoebe, Snr... Ann Windsor
Tozer.... John Hollis
Ursula .... Cathy Sara
Mr May ... Peter Jeffrey
Janey May.... Fiona Christie
Reginald May... Richard Derrington
Sir Robert Dorset.... David King
Ann Dorset.... Sunny Ormonde
Sophy Dorset... Oona Beeson

Music composed by Malcolm McKee.

Played by Malcolm McKee and Linda Rhodes.

Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Sue Wilson.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1994.

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Tue 22 Nov 202203:00
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