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Hester by Margaret Oliphant (Omnibus)

Was writer Margaret Oliphant the feminist Trollope? A single woman runs the bank in order to save it. Starring Penelope Wilton.

A tale of banks and bankers. A tale of credit and discredit.

A young woman in a 19th-century Cheshire town, having been snubbed and discarded in marriage, does something truly radical.

When the family bank is in danger of a run, she pledges her whole private fortune to save it. But instead of merely underwriting it, in return she insists on running the bank herself, as a single woman, in defiance of all convention.

Margaret Oliphant's novel first published in 1883.

Starring Penelope Wilton and Lyndsey Marshal.

Sometimes called 'the feminist Trollope', Oliphant is an unjustly-neglected British writer of the 19th-century, famed for her perceptive, ironic psychology, and her strong female characters.

Omnibus of five parts dramatised by Kate Clanchy & Zena Forster - revealing a flawed and fascinating heroine, reborn for radio.

Margaret Oliphant ..... Penelope Wilton
William ..... Adam Nagaitis
Lady Ellen Vernon ..... Jasmine Hyde
Mr Rule ..... Philip Jackson
Hester Vernon ..... Lyndsey Marshal
Harry Sellon ..... Ben Crowe

Harp played by Ruth Faber

Director: Jonquil Panting

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in December 2013.

1 hour, 10 minutes

Last on

Mon 25 Sep 2023 01:50

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  • Sat 4 Jan 2014 12:00
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  • Sun 27 Aug 2017 06:00
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  • Mon 25 Sep 2023 01:50