BBC Radio Drama Collection - Elizabeth Gaskell torrent

Category: Literature, Radio Productions
Language: English
Keywords: BBC Classics Full Cast Radio 4

Written by Elizabeth Gaskell
Read by Full Cast
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Dramatization

The Elizabeth Gaskell Collection
A BBC Drama Collection Including North and South, Wives and Daughters & More
By: Elizabeth Gaskell, Barry Campbell, Steve Wakelam, Amanda Vickery, Jenny Uglow
Narrated by: full cast, Jodie Comer, David Threlfall, Emily Mortimer, Sue Johnston, Kenneth Cranham, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Paul Copley, Rebecca Front
Length: 23 hrs and 20 mins
Radio/TV Program
Release date: 21-10-2021
Language: English
Publisher: BBC Audio

A collection of BBC Radio dramatisations of Elizabeth Gaskell’s well loved novels - plus bonus material.

Elizabeth Gaskell was one of Victorian England’s pre-eminent female novelists. Admired by Charles Dickens, who described her as his ‘dear Scheherazade’, she mingled storytelling and social realism to superb effect in her highly acclaimed fiction.

This comprehensive collection comprises dramas and readings of her finest works and some lesser-known pieces. Among the adaptations are her final, unfinished novel Wives and Daughters, her debut novel Mary Barton and her only historical novel, Sylvia’s Lovers; as well as the 1851 novella Mr Harrison’s Confession (a prequel to Cranford), and her great novel of industrialisation, female independence and identity, North and South. All feature star casts including Emerald O’Hanrahan, Sue Johnston, Jodie Comer, Emily Mortimer, Rod Hudd, David Threlfall and Julian Rhind-Tutt.

Also included are readings of Mrs Gaskell’s chilling supernatural tale ‘The Old Nurse’s Story’, her much-loved novel of life in a small town and its female inhabitants, Cranford and her festive short story ‘Christmas Storms and Sunshine’.

Based on true events, Stephen Wakelam’s detective drama Death at the Bed End, starring Kenneth Cranham, explores the controversy surrounding Elizabeth Gaskell’s biography of Charlotte Brontë and the libel threat that followed its publication. Also included are Mrs Gaskell: Portrait of a Victorian Novelist by Barry Campbell; inspired by the author’s letters. And in Great Lives: Elizabeth Gaskell, historian Amanda Vickery and biographer Jenny Uglow discuss Mrs Gaskell’s life, work and achievements with presenter Francine Stock.