Sargasso's alert

As we have being repeating several times, tonight BBC-One will broadcast the new version of Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea. If you were not able to see it on the previous BBC4 airing, this your chance. Radio Times presented the production like this and The Times does it this way:

WIDE SARGASSO SEA

BBC One, 9pm

Jean Rhys’s lush reworking of Jane Eyre — in which Rochester’s mad wife is re-imagined as a Creole heiress – is drenched from beginning to end in hothouse sensuality. Rochester (Rafe Spall) arrives on the tropical island to make his fortune. “I will make you happy,” he promises his adoring young wife (Rebecca Hall). “I will keep you safe. I will you give you everything you need.”

But the ghosts of the past and the priggishness of the present conspire to transform their love into hatred and insanity. Fans of the book may have their quibbles, but this adaptation is sodden with sweat and bewitched by voodoo, and passionately performed by Spall and Hall.

Edward Rochester - Rafe Spall
Antoinette Cosway - Rebecca Hall
Christophine - Nina Sosanya
Aunt Cora - Victoria Hamilton
Daniel - Fraser Ayres
Amelie - Lorraine Burroughs
Richard Mason - Alex Robertson
Grace Poole - Karen Meagher

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