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George Eliot
Ex-parliamentary standards commissioner Elizabeth Filkin chooses the novelist, George Eliot. With Humphrey Carpenter. From 2002.
Former Parliamentary standards watchdog Elizabeth Filkin admires a woman who scandalised Victorian society.
But her ideas about morality have much to teach us.
Writer Mary Evans is better known as George Eliot.
Eliot's biographer, Kathryn Hughes gives her expert assessment.
Presented by Humphrey Carpenter.
Producer: Peter Everett
First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in June 2002.
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