Jane Eyre
Author : Charlotte Bronte
Performed By : Claire Bloom, Sir Anthony Quayle & cast
Publisher : Harper Collins UK
Runtime : 3 hours
Categories : Dramatizations
Classics
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Jane Eyre is the story of an unloved and penniless orphan who triumphs over harsh treatment to become a spirited and independent young woman.
She secures employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall where she transforms the life of morose and lonely Edward Rochester.
They fall in love, but Thornfield holds a dark secret that blights their happiness.
This dramatised reading captures all the passionate intensity of Charlotte Brontë's great romantic novel.
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John Bull's Other Island
Author : George Bernard Shaw
Performed By : Christopher Benjamin, Patrick Duggan and cast
Publisher : Harper Collins UK
Runtime : 3 hours
Categories : Classic Literature
Classics
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When Thomas Broadbent, an Englishman, visits Ireland for the first time, he is accompanied by his friend Larry Doyle, an Irishman who is returning to his homeland after being away for many years.
Through the two men's differing responses to the country and also the Irish people's reactions to their two visitors, Shaw is able to explore the misunderstandings and misconceptions that have characterised relations between England and Ireland for centuries.
According to Shaw, 'John Bull's Other Island' was written in 1904 at the request of W.B.Yeats 'as a patriotic contribution to the repertory of the Irish Literary Theatre', but when Mr Yeats read the script he rejected it, claiming that it was beyond the resources of the Abbey Theatre.
In fact, for Yeats, a play which was 'uncongenial to the whole spirit of the neo-Gaelic movement' must have made uncomfortable reading, and for us today, in the light of all that has happened in the intervening years, the issues raised by the play have lost none of their urgency.
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