Match Anne Lister, the 18th Hundred years landowner, industrialist, explorer, lesbian and feminist icon. That is her story…

Anne was not the same as society’s expectations of a female at that time: she not merely did not desire to marry, but she also did not desire to conform. Anne was only interested in ladies and had ‘relationship’ ceremonies with Mariana Lawton and afterwards Ann Walker. She spent significant amounts of period studying, handled her very own estates, sought work at home opportunities, travelled broadly and climbed mountains

In this full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation compiled by Mary Cooper and starring Deborah McAndrew as Anne, we meet the serial diarist as she describes her life, her loves and the societal changes happening around her.

Cast:

Anne……Deborah McAndrew

Isabella……Helen Schlesinger

Mariana……Kaye Wragg

Eliza……Rina Mahoney

Produced and directed by Nadia Molinan.