Catching Heathcliff

In BBC-Radio 4, today:

Hopes and Desires: Catching Heathcliff

Monday 29 January 2007 11:30-12:00 (Radio 4 FM)

Series of romantic comedies.

By Nick Warburton.

Lindsey, an incurable romantic, yearns to meet a modern- day Heathcliff. When she does, she rashly sends him a romantic letter, and immediately regrets it. Her long-suffering friend Graham is then pushed into an elaborate and wildly comic campaign to retrieve it.

Graham ...... Philip Jackson
Lindsey ...... Amanda Root
Heathcliff/Morton ...... Mark Straker
Postman ...... Nick Warburton

Radio Times reviews it here:

Sometimes you just want an easy listen; nothing that requires too much effort and yet is clever enough to keep you interested and alert. Nick Warburton's romantic comedy is just the ticket. Our narrator is Graham (Philip Jackson), a sensible lad who has a thing for Lindsey (Amanda Root), a large girl with an even larger capacity for fantasising: "I want to go someplace where I can run wild without causing structural damage." It was Lindsey who nominated her beloved Wuthering Heights for the book club that Graham joined just because she did. Strangely, the rather wellattended club has shrunk to just the two of them. That is, until Morton Ransome bursts through the doors, mysteriously dark and handsome. His appearance and consequent effect on Lindsey heralds the start of some farcical comings and goings, the outcome of which I won't spoil for you.

RT reviewer - Frances Lass

You can listen again to the programme here (one week only).

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