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Mr Percy and the Prophet by Wilkie Collins

4 Extra Debut. Meeting with a clairvoyant has extraordinary consequences for sceptical Percy Linwood. Stars Ronald Pickup and Jonathan Firth.

It's 1817. A meeting with a clairvoyant has extraordinary consequences for a sceptical Percy Linwood.

But even prophecies do not always go according to plan.

Starring Ronald Pickup and Jonathan Firth.

Written by Wilkie Collins.

Dramatised by John Arden.

Wilkie Collins .... Ronald Pickup
Percy Linwood .... Jonathan Firth
Captain Bervie .... Mark Payton
Charlotte Bowmore .... Tilly Gaunt
Mr Bowmore .... Michael Cochrane
Mrs Bowmore .... Frances Jeater
Major .... Norman Rodway
Dr Lagarde .... Gareth Armstrong
Manservant .... Harry Myers

Director: Rosalynd Ward

A BBC Radio 4/World Service co-production first broadcast in November 1998.

1 hour

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Sat 13 Jan 202401:00
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