Literary Misfits

Today March 17 (as previously reported on Brontëana) BBC Radio 4 broadcast the first part of Literary Misfits, a collection of five stories with a literary twist:

A week of literary chaos as some of our favourite fictional characters stumble into the pages of the wrong book!
Our favourite books are like old friends: comforting, reassuring, and familiar. We reread them time and time again safe in the knowledge that Elizabeth Bennett will end up with her Mr Darcy and that Sherlock Holmes will, after a pipe or two, solve the baffling mystery and unmask the villain.
But what if there was some huge literary mix up? What if, in a bizarre game of literary musical chairs, some of our favourite characters crept out of the pages of their own book and stumbled into the foreign and anachronistic world of a different book? Would Lizzy still marry Darcy? Would Holmes retain his powers of deduction? (...) When the great Victorian detective and Dr. Watson meet the unassuming Jane Eyre will they be able to solve a most puzzling literary mystery?

The series is a production of BBC Northern Ireland and we are particularly interested in the first story that will be broadcast today at 3:30 PM (it will be available for a week here).

Radio 4 15:30 PM Afternoon Reading - Literary Misfits
The Case of the Scream in the Night by Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
Read by Michael Maloney
Produced by Heather Brennon
When a mysterious Miss Jane Eyre calls at Sherlock Holmes’s Baker Street residence little does he suspect just how mysterious her case will turn out to be.

Thursday Next is rumoured to make a cameo appearance :P.

Categories: Audio-Radio, Jane_Eyre