BBC Radio 4 The Pallisers

Part 1 – Sunday 10 November 2019, 15:00 – 16:00

Part 2 – Sunday 17 November 2019, 15:00 – 16:00

Part 3 – Sunday 24 November 2019, 15:00 – 16:00

Part 4 – Sunday 23 February 2020, 15:00 – 16:00

Part 5 – Sunday 29 February 2020, 15:00 – 16:00

Part 6 – Sunday 8 March 2020, 15:00 – 16:00

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A pacy, radical reworking of the Palliser novels about high life and low politics in Victorian England.

Jessica Raine and Tim McMullan star in a new adaptation of the novels by Anthony Trollope about high life and low politics in Victorian England, dramatised by Mike Harris.

Based on The Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope.

Cast

Lady Glencora Palliser… Jessica Raine
Plantagenet… Tim McMullan
Phineas Finn… Edward MacLiam
Burgo… Blake Ritson
Violet… Scarlett Courtney
Marie Goesler… Melody Grove
Kennedy/Slide… Neil McCaul
Bonce/Grimes… Greg Jones
Commons Speaker… Hamilton Berstock

Dramatised by Mike Harris
Director/Producer: Gary Brown

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Explore Trollope’s world of the Pallisers and meet the hundreds of characters who populate the novels. Contains plot spoilers!

Key characters

Lady Glencora Palliser
Plantagenet Palliser
Phineas Finn
Burgo Fitzgerald
Violet Effingham
Marie Goelser (Madame Max)
Robert Kennedy

The Palliser novels

Can You Forgive Her? (1865)
Phineas Finn (1869)
The Eustace Diamonds (1873)
Phineas Redux (1874)
The Prime Minister (1876)
The Duke’s Children (1880)