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Radio 4 Extra,01 Feb 2004,60 mins

2. Can You Forgive Her?/ Phineas Finn

The Pallisers by Anthony Trollope

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As Phineas Finn and Lady Laura arrive on the scene, there’s news about Lady Glencora and Plantagenet Palliser. Alice Vavasor - having broken her engagement to John Grey - is now engaged to her disreputable cousin George. But has either lady been true to her heart? Anthony Trollope's political intrigues of a Victorian aristocratic family. Starring Sophie Thompson and Ben Miles. Dramatised from the novels by Martyn Wade. Lady Glencora ... Sophie Thompson Plantagenet Palliser ... Ben Miles Lady Laura ... Juliet Stevenson Phineas Finn ... Conleth Hill Alice Vavasor ... Anastasia Hille George Vavasor ... Adrian Lukis John Grey .. Mark Bazeley Burgo Fitzgerald... Bertie Carvel Lady Monk ... Frances Jeater Lord Chiltern ... Scott Handy Violet Effingham ... Jaimi Barbakoff Scruby... Chris Moran Lord Brentford ... John Rowe Kennedy ... Kevin McMonagle John ... Mark Bazeley Bonteen ... Ioan Meredith With David Troughton as the narrator - Anthony Trollope Music specially composed by Elizabeth Parker. Director: Cherry Cookson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2004.

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