William Shakespeare - 41 - All's Well That Ends Well bbc 2002 torrent

"there is no living, none,
If Bertram be away. 'Twere all one
That I should love a bright particular star
And think to wed it, he is so above me:
In his bright radiance and collateral light
Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.
The ambition in my love thus plagues itself:
The hind that would be mated by the lion
Must die for love. 'Twas pretty, though plague,
To see him every hour; to sit and draw
His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls,
In our heart's table; heart too capable
Of every line and trick of his sweet favour"


The bbc radio collection production from 2002, with Simon Russell Beale and Emma Fielding as the principals. Without a doubt this is the best available audio version of Shakespeare's somewhat awkward 'problem play'. Kindly seed.

Helena ...... Emma Fielding
Countess ...... Sian Phillips
Widow ...... Miriam Margolyes
King ...... Richard Griffiths
Lafew ...... George Baker
Parolles ...... Simon Russell Beale
Duke ...... David Timson
Bertram ...... Carl Prekopp
Steward/2nd soldier ...... Ian Masters
Clown/Second Lord ...... Ewan Bailey
Diana ...... Helen Longworth
Mariana ...... Emma Field-Rayner
First Lord ...... Iwan Thomas
Gent ...... Gerard McDermott
1st Soldier/1st Gent ...... Ben Onwukwe
2nd Gent/4th Lord ...... Peter Darney

(Shakespeare's play, which opens in France at the estate of the Countess of Rousillon, tells of the extraordinary lengths a young woman will go to to win the hand of the young man she loves. Helena, a waiting woman and ward of the Countess, has set her sights on Bertram, the Countess's son.)