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| Adam Bede | ...GEORGE ELIOT's haunting first novel; a story of love betrayed and love rewarded.... |
| Alias George Eliot | |
| And The Money Goes To | ...The reading of a will can be a tense, surprising and controversial occasion, the perfect basis for a plot. This programme looks at how wills have become a popular dramatic device in fiction, used by Puccini in Gianni Schichi and particularly favoured by Victorian writers such as Dickens and GEORGE ELIOT... |
| Bards Of Bromley | ...Mrs Swerdlow....Julia Mckenzie William Wordsworth....Timothy West GEORGE ELIOT....Amanda Root August Strindberg....Paul Rhys A.A. Milne....John Moffat Johann Wolfgang von Goethe....John Rowe Dr. Chekhov....Philip Fox... |
| Daniel Deronda | ...Dramatisation of GEORGE ELIOT's novel.... |
| Eclipse 1999 | ...Mark Rylance, currently playing Cleopatra at the Globe, talks to Sheila McClennon about the challenges of female roles. Reading: `Eclipse 1999' (2/5). / Astronomer Heather Couper introduces five readings of poetry, prose and diary extracts to mark the end of the millennium. 2: Readings focusing on sunset, from writers as diverse as John Ruskin, GEORGE ELIOT and Mitsuhashi Takajo. Readers Brigit Forsyth, Lisa Eichorn, Denys Hawthorne, Mona Hammond and Derek Griffiths.... |
| Felix Holt, The Radical | ...Michael Eaton's adaptation of one of GEORGE ELIOT's lesser known novels, a romance set in 1832 after the passing of the Great Reform Act brought new voters and new ideas to the political scene in the Midlands.... |
| Great Lives | ...GEORGE ELIOT... |
| Lifted Veil, The | ...By Jonathan Holloway, adapted in two parts from the novella by GEORGE ELIOT. 1: Latimer can not only see into the future, he can also tell what people are thinking. But he fails to benefit from his clairvoyant gifts, and chooses to ignore the warning that he is given. With Toby Stephens and Edward Michie. Director Jane Morgan.... |
| Map Of British Poetry, A | ...With contributions from Steve Pile and Elizabeth Wilson and poems by GEORGE ELIOT, TS Eliot, John Gay, Roy Fisher, Oscar Wilde, Rosemary Tonks, John Betjeman, Maura Dooley and William Wordsworth.... |
| Middlemarch | ...There's gossip at the engagement party, and Rosy Vincy encounters Dr Lydgate. GEORGE ELIOT dramatisation with Robert Glenister.... |
| Mill On The Floss, The | ...GEORGE ELIOT's classic tale of love, rejection and reconciliation.... |
| Proms Plus | ...As part of the festival's Victorian season, Matthew Sweet is joined by Roy Hattersley and Valentine Cunningham as they champion the Victorian novel in all its forms. From the elegance of Jane Austen and the thrilling sensation novels of Wilkie Collins to the stately realism of GEORGE ELIOT and the bleakness of Thomas Hardy, the Victorian novel is a treasure trove of literary riches.... |
| Silas Marner | ...An old, reclusive weaver's life is unexpectedly transformed. GEORGE ELIOT drama.... |
| Sound Stories | ...With Peggy Reynolds. 1: GEORGE ELIOT. Born Mary Anne Evans and later calling herself Marion and Mrs Lewis, GEORGE ELIOT died as Mrs John Cross. One of her first stories features Caterina, an Italian singer, and many of her famous books include portraits of musicians. Including Liszt: Ave Maria. Stephen Hough (piano). Wagner: Elizabeth's Greeting (Tannhauser). Waltraud Meier (mezzo), Bavarian RSO/Lorin Maazel. Schubert: Piano Sonata in B flat, D960 (4th mvt). Mitsuko Uchida. Handel: O, Had I Jubal's Lyre (Joshua). Janet Baker (mezzo), ECO/Raymond Leppard.... |
| Victorian Interiors | ...In 1851, when GEORGE ELIOT was still known as Marian Evans and had not yet become a novelist, she began a relationship that was to help unlock her genius.... |
| Victorian Marriage Beds | ...By Geoffrey Beevers, with commentary by Dr Lesley Hall. As part of a series about Victorian sexuality, this drama documentary about 60-year-old novelist GEORGE ELIOT's honeymoon with John Cross explores the codes of sexual conduct between an older woman and a younger man more than 100 years ago. With Anna Massey, William Gaminara, Bella Hamblin and Luca Pusceddu.... |
| Write Stuff, The | ...GEORGE ELIOT... |