The purpose of this paper is
to prove a new characterisation of Banach spaces having a Radon-Nikodym dual,
namely that if E is a Banach space, then E′ has the Radon-Nikodym property if and
only if there exists an equivalent norm on E such that for each E-valued measure m
of bounded variation, there exists an E′-valued function f with norm 1 |m|-a.e. such
that |m| = f.m.