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Beyond the Pale

Episode 7 of 8

India, 1885: Can an English merchant's love for a widowed Indian woman overcome the cultural barriers? Stars Nina Wadia.

Lahore, 1885. An English merchant falls deeply in love with a widowed Indian girl.

But he can have no idea of the cultural barriers to their happiness.

Series of plays based on short stories written by Rudyard Kipling.

Dramatised by Ed Thomason.

Bisesa... Nina Wadia
Trejago... Gareth Armstrong
Narrator... Renu Setna
Mahbub/Gaya Din... Lyndam Gregory
Charan... Gurdial Sira
Gaur Chand... Amerjit Deu
Naini... Charubala Chokshi
Leela... Heather Emmanuel
Dorothea... Frances Jeater
Macklin... John Evitts

Producer: Adrian Bean

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1994.

30 minutes

Last on

Wed 30 Mar 202201:30
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