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2. Somerset

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Dismissed by Lady Booby, misfortune strikes as Joseph Andrews returns to Somerset. Stars Cornelius Garrett and June Barrie.

'Being very full of Adventures, some scarce credible to those who have never travelled in a Stage Coach'

After being dismissed by Lady Booby, misfortune strikes as Joseph Andrews returns to Somerset.

Henry Fielding's 18th-century comic masterpiece is a riotous journey through the morals and manners of high and low society.

Stars Cornelius Garrett

Dramatised by John Scotney

Joseph ...... Cornelius Garrett
Lady Booby ...... June Barrie
Mrs Slipslop ...... Anne Jameson
Henry Fielding ...... John Rye
Dr Cuttle .... Peter Copley
Parson Adams ... John Franklyn-Robbins
Tow-Wouse ... Ronald Herdman
Mrs Tow-Wouse ... Mary Wimbush
Fanny/Betty .... Jane Leonard
Lady in the coach .... Ingrid Hafner
Coachman .... John Church
Robber .... Sean Barrett

Director: Shaun MacLoughlin

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in April 1986.

1 hour

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