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Life takes an unexpected turn when Newland Archer meets his fiancee's unconventional cousin. Stars Kellie Bright.

Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland, but his life takes an unexpected turn when he meets May's unconventional cousin Countess Ellen Olenska.

Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a passionate life-long love affair which breaks all the rules of the restrictive high society of 1870's New York.

Dramatised in two parts by Jane Rogers.

Newland Archer .... Ryan McCluskey
Ellen Olenska .... Susan Lynch
May Welland ... Kellie Bright
Augusta Welland .... Lorelei King
Sillerton Jackson/Riviere ..... Kerry Shale
Julius Beaufort .... Conrad Nelson
Lawrence .... Martin T Sherman

Director: Nadia Molinari

First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in January 2008.

1 hour

Last on

Fri 8 May 2020 03:00

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