Alias George Eliot

From BBC Radio 4 Extra. Written by Martyn Wade; Full-cast dramatisation starring Deborah Findlay, Nicholas Le Prevost, John Brett and Adrian Scarborough.

The story of Joseph Liggins, the man who claimed to have written the works of novelist George Eliot. His announcement came as a shock to the pseudonym's real user, Mary Ann Evans, who originally assumed the name to avoid being recognised as the lover of literary critic George Henry Lewes.