A review by lnatal
The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott

5.0

From BBC radio 4 Extra:
Episode 1 of 3
Daphne Manners arrives in Mayapore and meets two men who are to change her life: Hari Kumar and Ronald Merrick.

Episode 2 of 3
Daphne's friendship with Hari Kumar deepens as the relationship between Britain and India grows more volatile.

Episode 3 of 3
Daphne and Hari's relationship is brought to a painful conclusion.

The last days of the British Raj in India as the Second World War leads inevitably towards independence.

Paul Scott's classic series of novels dramatised by John Harvey.

Daphne Manners - Anna Maxwell Martin
Ronald Merrick - Mark Bazeley
Hari Kumar - Prasanna Puwanarajah
Lily Chatterji - Josephine Welcome
Sister Ludmilla - Susan Engel
Dr De Souza - Kulvinder Ghir
Miss Edwina Crane - Phyllida Law
Dr Anna Klaus - Susan Jameson
Poulson - John Rowe
Sergeant Singh/Gupta Sen - Ravin J Ganatra

Other parts played by Helen Longworth, Robert Hastie, Emily Wachter and Stephen Hogan.

Music by Raiomond Mirza.

Director: Sally Avens.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09v676w