Classic Serial - Clarissa: The History of a Young Lady - The Flight

Dramatisation by Hattie Naylor of the 1748 novel by Samuel Richardson. Clarissa has been persuaded to flee with the notorious libertine Lovelace, escaping an arranged marriage. In London she begins to learn of the darker side of Lovelace's character as he secures her lodgings in a house of ill repute and begins to use lies, trickery and cruel delusions in an attempt to seduce her. Clarissa Harlowe ...... Zoe Waites Robert Lovelace ...... Richard Armitage Anna Howe ...... Cathy Sara Mrs Sinclair ...... Miriam Margolyes Dorcas ...... Lisa Hammond Sally ...... Sophie Thompson Belford ...... Adrian Scarborough Tourville ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt Captain Tomlinson ...... Stephen Critchlow Directed by Marilyn Imrie A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4.