A New Admirer
Colonel Hargrave pursues Laura Montreville from Perthshire to London, where she meets a new admirer. Stars Gerda Stevenson.
Colonel Hargrave pursues Laura from Perthshire to London - where Laura meets a new admirer.
Published in 1811, Mary Brunton’s romantic tale set in Perthshire and London - dramatised in ten parts by Gerda Stevenson.
Laura Montreville is loved by two men - a reckless libertine and a dignified but reserved landowner. In a world where polite society and sexual hypocrisy rub shoulders easily, can she choose wisely between passion and virtue?
Narrated by Maureen Beattie.
Laura ...... Gerda Stevenson
Hargrave ...... Andrew Wincott
Lady Harriet Montreville ...... Phyllida Law
Jeannie ...... Colette O'Neil
Montreville ...... Bernard Horsfall
Montague De Courcy ...... Tom Goodman-Hill
Wilkins ...... David Timson
Warren ...... Thomas Arnold
Producer: Bruce Young
First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in April 2003.
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