Persuasion | |
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Written by | Jane Austen |
Screenplay by | Barbara Burnham Michael Voysey |
Directed by | Campbell Logan |
Starring |
Daphne Slater Paul Daneman |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 4 (all missing) |
Production | |
Producer | Campbell Logan |
Running time | 30 min. episodes (approx.) |
Original release | |
Network | BBC One |
Release | 30 December 1960 20 January 1961 | –
Persuasion is a 1960 British television mini-series adaptation of the 1817 Jane Austen novel of the same name. It was produced by the BBC and was directed by Campbell Logan. Daphne Slater stars as Anne Elliot, and Paul Daneman as Captain Frederick Wentworth. The mini-series has four episodes, each half an hour in length.
According to shmoop.com, this mini-series was most likely destroyed in the BBC clean-out of the 1970s. [1]