The Carlingford Chronicles: Miss Marjoribanks & Phoebe Junior - BBC Radio Drama Collection - Margaret Oliphant

Written by Margaret Oliphant
Read by Elizabeth Spriggs, Teresa Gallagher, Charlotte Attenborough, Timothy West, Full Cast
Format: M4B
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Dramatization

MISS MARJORIBANKS

Lucilla Marjoribanks, a large and determined girl, returns from school with two resolves – to comfort her recently widowed father and to revolutionise society. She becomes the doyenne of Carlingford’s social circle with her Thursday soirees – but her plans are disrupted by her friends’ romances, a new arrival, the solving of a mystery and a wedding…

Margaret Oliphant’s humorous novel, first published in 1865 is dramatised in four-parts by Elizabeth Proud.

Lucilla Marjoribanks …… Teresa Gallagher
Dr Marjoribanks …… Roy Hanlon
Mrs Oliphant …… Elizabeth Spriggs
Mr Cavendish …… Keith Drinkel
Barbara Lake …… Elizabeth Mansfield
Tom Marjoribanks …… Nicholas Murchie
Mrs Nelly Woodburn …… Elizabeth Proud
Colonel Chiley …… Garard Green
Mr Cavendish …… Keith Drinkel
Mrs Chiley …… Ann Windsor
Mrs Mortimer …… Kate Binchy
Fanny …… Siriol Jenkins
Edward …… David Holt
The Rev Bury …… John Fleming
Mrs Centum …… Theresa Streatfield
Maria Brown …… Melanie Hudson
Mr Holder …… Eric Allan
Nancy …… Joanna Wake
Rosie Lake …… Joanna Myers
Mr Woodburn …… Christopher Scott
Archdeacon Beverley …… Paul Daneman
Mr Centum …… Peter Penry-Jones
Lady Richmond …… Jill Graham
General Travers …… John Webb
Major Brown …… Jonathan Adams

Other parts played by members of the cast.

Music by Malcolm McKee.

Producer: Sue Wilson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1992.

PHOEBE JUNIOR

Mrs Oliphant wrote her last chapter of the Chronicles of Carlingford when Lucilla Marjoribanks got married.

It’s now 1875 and Mrs Oliphant returns to the town to focus on Phoebe Beecham’s family - with the jealousies and rivalries of Carlingford between the Church and the Dissenters and Society and its shopkeepers.

Phoebe Beecham has met Clarence Copperhead at a Ball in London. His wealthy father disapproves of her and she fortuitously leaves London to visit her sick Grandmother in Carlingford. But a shock awaits her on arrival…

Margaret Oliphant’s sequel to Miss Marjoribanks, first published in 1876, is dramatised in four parts by Elizabeth Proud.

Mrs Oliphant … Elizabeth Spriggs
Phoebe, Junior … Charlotte Attenborough
Clarence Copperhead … MIchael Onslow
Copperhead …. Timothy West
Mrs Copperhead … Elizabeth Proud
Mr Beecham …. Norman Bird
Phoebe, Snr … Ann Windsor
Tozer …. John Hollis
Ursula …. Cathy Sara
Mr May … Peter Jeffrey
Janey May …. Fiona Christie
Reginald May … Richard Derrington
Sir Robert Dorset …. David King
Ann Dorset …. Sunny Ormonde
Sophy Dorset … Oona Beeson

Music composed by Malcolm McKee.

Played by Malcolm McKee and Linda Rhodes.

Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Sue Wilson.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1994.

My recordings from BBC Sounds.