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Penelope Wilton and Lyndsey Marshal star in this high Victorian tale of a woman who runs her own bank. Hester rejects another offer of marriage which is in effect a merger attempt from a rival bank. To ward off further threats, she invites her disgraced cousin Edward Vernon and his spoilt wife back, to front the business of the bank with local businessmen. A young woman in a 19th-century Cheshire town, having been snubbed and discarded in marriage, does something truly radical. When the family bank is in danger of a run, she pledges her whole private fortune to save it. But instead of merely underwriting it, in return she insists on running the bank herself, as a single woman, in defiance of all convention. Margaret Oliphant's novel first published in 1883. Dramatised by Kate Clanchy & Zena Forster. Margaret Oliphant ..... Penelope Wilton Hester Vernon ..... Lyndsey Marshal Harry Sellon ..... Ben Crowe Farrington ..... Patrick Brennan Mildmay Vernon ..... Paul Stonehouse Miss Vernon-Ridgeway ..... Sarah Thom Miss Matilda Vernon-Ridgeway ..... Liza Sadovy Edward Vernon ..... Joseph Kloska Lady Ellen Vernon ..... Jasmine Hyde Labourer ..... Adam Nagaitis Director: Jonquil Panting First broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 in December 2013.