Juliet Stevenson

as Peggy

as Ruth

as Cindy Cohen

as Emma

as Self - Narrator

as Dr. Charity Taylor

as Rhoda

as Self - Narrator

as Mary

as Narrator

as Matilda Anchor-Ferrers

as Maria Hill's Mum

as Maggie

as Sister Mary Lou

as Mary Lou Prescott

as Dorothy Venn

as Helena Goldberg

as Carol

as The Dowager

as Helga

as Gertrude

as Self

as Self - Narrator (voice)

as Ethel

as Cassandra Eltham

as Herself - Narrator

as Herself - Narrator

as Louise Elliot

as Beatrice

as Betty Grosse

as Mary

as Narrator

as Laura Burrell

as Mother Teresa

as Narrator

as The Oracle

as Sonia

as Penny

as Clem Allingham

as Charlotte

as Narrator (voice)

as Lady Elms

as Helen Ryland

as Narrator (voice)

as Amy

as Julia Reynolds

as Lucinda

as Narrator (voice)

as Miss Heliotrope

as Marion

as Barbara Mallen

as Catherine Heathcote

as Narrator (voice)

as Elizabeth Wilmshurst

as Kim Morrison

as Self

as Diana Ellerby

as Narrator (voice)

as Rosemary

as Diana Vreeland

as Narrator

as Gerda's Mother

as Annie Pierrepoint

as Narrator

as Narrator

as Sofia Warburton

as Evie

as Herself (voice)

as Amanda Armstrong

as Christine Shields

as Self - W2 (From "Play")

as Mrs. Squeers

as Narrator (voice)

as Gus Harte

as Paula Paxton

as Eve

as Pamela Porterfield

as Mrs. Cratchit / Mother Gimlet (voice)

as Gwenyth Moore

as 2nd Woman

as Readings (voice)

as Helen West

as Annie Lee

as Narrator

as Self - Narrator (voice)

as Jane

as Narrator

as Jean

as Mrs. Elton

as Narrator (voice)

as Flora Matlock

as Isobel Coleridge

as Narrator (voice)

as Jane (voice)

as Jane (voice)

as Fraulein Burstner

as Narrator

as Nora Helmer

as Nora Helmer

as Nina

as Lucy

as Vicky

as Clare Fitzgerald

as Alice Howard

as Cissie Colpitts (Daughter)

as Ruth

as Hilda Carline

as Rosalind Franklin

as Antigone

as Antigone

as Ruth

as Fräulein Bürstner

as Hilda Carline

as Lucy

as Jean

as Thaisa

as Elizabeth von Rietberg

as Narrator

as Narrator (voice)

as Self - Narrator (voice)

as Barbara Mallen

as Barbara Mallen

as Barbara Bensham (née Mallen)

as Thaisa