Sheila Hancock stars in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of E. M. Forster’s glorious tale of love in Italy and England.
Lucy Honeychurch is an innocent abroad. Under the care of her well-meaning but infuriating chaperon, cousin Charlotte, she is completing the final part of a conventional well-bred English upbringing - the Grand Tour. But the sensual atmosphere of the Florentine countryside exercises a strange power over Lucy’s half-formed and untested character, as do her fellow guests at the Pension Bertolini.
Back home in Surrey, Lucy fights the passions stirred in her by Italy and becomes very respectably engaged to the cultured Cecil Vyse. It promises to be a conventional life until, one day, Florence and all its accompanying emotion resurfaces in the form of young George Emerson. Torn between society’s expectations and the stirrings of her quickening heart, Lucy struggles with her dilemma until her warring emotions reach an explosive climax.
E.M. Forster’s portrayal of the richness of Italy and the contrasting formality of Victorian England are wonderfully evoked in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatision.
Mary W. Shelley
Narrator : Tom Casaletto
Published By : Brilliance Audio Inc
Runtime : 8 hours 22 minutes
Categories : Classics Horror & Suspense Horror & Suspense
Price : $24.95
Original and classic story of the creature created by Dr. Frankenstein. View...
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrator : Ralph Cosham
Published By : In Audio
Runtime : 2 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Classics Horror & Suspense
Price : $15.95 $9.50
The classic thriller explores the split nature of man. View...
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Jane Austen
Narrator : Emilia Fox
Published By : Select Music & Distribution
Runtime : 13 hours
Categories : Classics Classic
Price : $42.49
This marvellous account of family life in Regency England is read with vigour and style by Emilia Fox. View...
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Mark Twain
Narrator : Dick Hill
Published By : Brilliance Audio Inc
Runtime : 10 hours 34 minutes
Categories : Over 10s Classics Classics
Price : $24.95
This giant work, in addition to entertaining boys and girls for generations, has defined the first-person novel in America. View...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography Biographical Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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