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Four years have passed and Maggie is reunited with a friend from the past.

Tom is determined to help his father win back The Mill.

George Eliot's novel of grand passions and tormented lives.

Dramatised by Rhiannon Tise.

George Eliot, the Narrator ..... Anna Maxwell Martin
Maggie ...... Joanna Vanderham
Stephen ...... Jack Farthing
Philip ...... Chris Lew Kum Hoi
Tom ...... Will Kirk
Lucy ...... Ell Potter
Mr Tulliver ...... Roger Ringrose
Mrs Tulliver ...... Alison Belbin
Mr Wakem ...... John Dougall
Bob ...... Kurtis Lowe
Mrs Moss ...... Heather Craney
Dr Kenn ...... Hasan Dixon
Mrs Glegg ...... Elizabeth Counsell

George Eliot's most autobiographical novel draws on her personal pain at the loss of the close bond with her brother who had cut off all contact with her. It resulted in one of the great novels of childhood, and one of literature's most unforgettable heroines.

Like Anne of Green Gables and Jane Eyre, Maggie captures the dilemma of being the clever girl in the family, the ugly duckling, the misplaced foundling who longs to be recognised for the genius she secretly knows herself to be.

Director: Tracey Neale

First broadcast on 成人论坛 Radio 4 in April 2020.