Synopsis
George Eliot's real life explored through five of her fictional characters. Kathryn Hughes hears from writer David Constantine and biographer Philip Davis about Silas Marner.
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Melvyn Bragg and guests Rosemary Ashton, Dinah Birch and Valentine Cunningham discuss George Eliot's 1861 novel Silas Marner.