A review by lnatal
A Marble Woman: Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott by Madeleine B. Stern, Louisa May Alcott

3.0

From BBC Radio 4 Extra:
Recently orphaned Cecilia Stein turns up at the door of a large gothic mansion, home to genius sculptor Bazil Yorke. Jilted by the child's mother many years ago, Yorke decides to use the daughter to punish the sins of the mother.

Sexual repression, opium addiction and love collide in Louisa May Alcott's Gothic tour de force - dramatised by Lavinia Murray.

Starring Bill Paterson as Bazil Yorke, Amanda Root as Cecil Stein, John McArdle as Germain, Charles De'Ath as Alfred, Sarah Parkes as Mrs Norton, Geoffrey Banks as Anthony, Becky Simpson as Young Cecil and Robert Pollard as Young Alfred.

Producer: Pauline Harris

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09sncnt