Brideshead Revisited
Author : Evelyn Waugh
Performed By : Full Cast Production
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 4 hours
Categories : Classic Literature
Classics
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'Here, at the age of thirty nine, I began to be old. '
In 1944 Captain Charles Ryder travels with a company of soldiers to Brideshead. It's a place he's been to before, and one which serves as a potent reminder of the decadent and stylish lifestyle now destroyed by the austerity of the Second World War.
Evelyn Waugh's moving and nostalgic novel revisits a golden age, when Ryder was a student at Oxford in the 1920s and in thrall to the captivating but tragic Sebastian Flyte. As the story unfolds over the next two decades, Ryder traces his friendship with Sebastian and his involvement with the young man's aristocratic Catholic family - in particular Julia, the eldest Flyte daughter.
Ben Miles stars as Charles Ryder with Jamie Bamber as Sebastian in this full-cast dramatisation, which also features Eleanor Bron and Edward Petherbridge.
Written By
Evelyn Waugh
First Broadcast
16 March 2003
NUMBER OF EPISODES
4
Last Broadcast
6 April 2003
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Day of the Triffids, The
Author : John Wyndham
Performed By : Various
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 2 hours 50 minutes
Categories : Dramatizations
Classic Literature
Classics
Horror & Suspense
Drama
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Bill Masen wakes in his hospital bed, eyes bandaged. Something is wrong, it's unusually quiet and no one has come to his room. When he removes his bandages he finds a world that has changed utterly. Most of the population are completely blind — only those who didn't watch the night sky can still see.
And as law and order break down, a new menace appears — triffids, walking carnivorous plants that can kill a human with their lethal sting. For Bill and the other survivors, it's now a battle to stay alive.
Gary Watson stars as Bill, with Barbara Shelley as Josella in these six stirring episodes Also amongst the cast are Peter Sallis, Marjorie Westbury (Steve in the Paul Temple radio series) and some names familiar to Doctor Who aficionados: Peter Pratt, Christopher Bidmead and David Brierley .
First published in 1951, John Wyndham's novel became his best-known work and a classic of 20th Century fiction.
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