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Radio 4,09 Feb 2014,60 mins
Available for 29 days
Mr Arabin is 40, an Oxford man and adversary in Archdeacon Grantly's fight against the odious clerical newcomer, Slope. Arabin, however, knows nothing of women. But now he's seen Eleanor Bold, looking out over the fields to Barchester... Anthony Trollope's novel - dramatised by Nick Warburton. Mrs Baxter ..... Maggie Steed Mr Harding ..... Tim Pigott-Smith Eleanor Bold ..... Claire Price Mr Arabin ..... Steve Toussaint Archdeacon Grantly ..... Malcolm Sinclair Obidiah Slope ..... Richard Lumsden Madeline Neroni ..... Katherine Parkinson Mrs Proudie ..... Joanna Monro Bishop Proudie .... James Lailey Mrs Quiverful ..... Carolyn Pickles Mr Quiverful ..... John Norton Music composed by David Tobin, Jeff Meegan and Julian Gallant. Director: Marion Nancarrow First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2014.
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