Top Cast
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Jenny Agutter
Mary Shelley
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Peter Bowles
Byron
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Clifford Rose
Leigh Hunt
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Robert Powell
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Lalla Ward
Harriet Shelley
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Judy Matheson
Jane Williams
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Robert Sansom
Master
Overview
A contemporary retelling of the Mary Shelley story, produced as a tribute to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley on the 150th anniversary of his death.
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