Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray - BBC Radio Drama torrent

Category: Adults, Classic, Literature, Radio Productions
Language: English
Keywords: Anthony Trollope Charles Dickens Costume Drama Stephen Fry

Written by William Makepeace Thackeray
Read by Stephen Fry, Emma Fielding, Toby Jones, Trevor Peacock, Nicholas Boulton, Full Cast
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Dramatization

Stephen Fry narrates this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the famous Victorian comic novel.

Orphan Becky Sharp and wealthy Amelia Sedley are best friends at Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for Young Ladies. On leaving school, ambitious, social-climbing Becky looks for a rich man to support her, while the sweet-natured Amelia meets her old friend Dobbin, who is instantly captivated.

Becky takes a job in the service of Sir Pitt Crawley, and uses her charm to hook his dashing son. However, marriage to Captain Rawdon of the Guards does not provide the fortune she seeks. Meanwhile, Amelia rejects the faithful Dobbin and becomes engaged to the handsome George Osborne – but destiny has some shocks in store for her, too.

As time goes by, the girls’ fortunes rise and fall. War, financial disaster and the ruin of her reputation leave the resourceful Becky undaunted, but Amelia finds it harder to bear fate’s blows. It will be many years before their story is played out, and their futures finally decided…

Dramatised by Stephen Wyatt.

Becky Sharp …. Emma Fielding
Amelia Sedley … Katy Cavanagh
George Osborne … Nicholas Boulton
Jos Sedley …. Toby Jones
Miss Pinkerton …. Sandy Walsh
Miss Jemima/Lady Crawley …. Joanna McCallum
William Dobbin …. Tom Smith
Sir Pitt Crawley …. Trevor Peacock
Pitt …. Jon Glover
Miss Crawley ….. Margaret Tyzack
Rawdon Crawley …. Ray Coulthard
Mrs Bute Crawley ….. Jemma Churchill
Maria Osborne …..Alice Hart
John Osborne …. Geoffrey Whitehead
Ensign Stubble ….. Stephen Hogan
Miss Briggs …. Kate Buffery
Mr Sedley …. Ian Masters
Peggy O’Dowd …. Monica Dolan
Hester …. Helen Longworth
Lord Steyne …. David Calder
Georgy …. Harry Francis
Mr Wenham …. Philip Fox
Cpt MacMurdo …. Mark Bonnar
Other parts played by members of the cast.

My recordings from BBC Sounds.

Twenty 15 minute episodes.

First broadcast on Radio 4 in 2004.