The Mayor Of Casterbridge BBC - Thomas Hardy torrent

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

Written by Thomas Hardy
Read by Full Cast
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Dramatization

The Mayor of Casterbridge (Dramatised)
By: Thomas Hardy
Narrated by: John Nettles, David Calder, Janet Dale
Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
Performance
Release date: 31-08-2007
Language: English
Publisher: BBC Worldwide Ltd

Hardy’s powerful tale, set in mid-19th century Dorset, tells the tragic story of Michael Henchard, a man who cannot escape his past.
Drunk on rum at a country fair, Henchard sells his wife to a sailor for five guineas. Unable to find, them and overcome with guilt and remorse, he vows to be teetotal for 21 years.

Many years later his wife seeks him out in Casterbridge, where he has gained both wealth and the well-respected position of mayor. His family restored to him, Henchard’s happiness should be complete. But beneath the surface still smoulders the same impetuousness and temper that, combined with fate, bring about his degradation and ruin.

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