E M Forster - Three Short Stories (BBC 2010) torrent

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Afternoon Reading, 6th to 8th April 2010



Throughout his career the novelist best known for some of the twentieth century\'s best loved novels including A Passage to India, Where Angels Fear to Tread and Howard\'s End wrote short stories which reveal much about his outlook on life. In them he explored many of the themes central to his novels, including the morals and mores of the middle classes in the early twentieth century, and his fascination with the Mediterranean. Many of his stories were unpublished until after his death because of their homosexual theme and only shown to his circle of friends, among them Christopher Isherwood and T.E. Lawrence.

1. The Story of the Siren
A Sicilian tells an unsettling story about an ill fated young man.
Read by Dan Stevens

2. The Road from Colonus
Misunderstandings thwart plans for a sojourn in the idyllic Greek countryside.
Read by Andrew Sachs

3. The Obelisk
A chance encounter leads an unhappily married couple to find solace in forbidden ways.
Read by Ruth Wilson

Stories abridged by Richard Hamilton
Produced by Elizabeth Allard


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