And Wide Sargasso Sea on BBC7

Villette on BBC-Radio 4 and The Professor on BBC-Radio 7 are not the only Brontë-related radio dramas next week. Also on BBC-7 we have Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea.

Wide Sargasso Sea (first aired on May 2004)
Read by Adjoa Andoh
Abridged by Margaret Busby

Monday to Friday, 2:30 PM and 04:30 AM

Monday, August 10 Episode 1
Tensions escalate amongst the former slaves on a Caribbean island.

Tuesday, August 11 Episode 2
Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway's mother marries an Englishman in Spanish Town, Jamaica.

Wednesday, August 12 Episode 3
Without her brother and parted from her mother, heiress Antoinette is sent off to school.

Thursday, August 13 Episode 4
Fresh from England, Rochester weds Creole heiress Antoinette and takes her to Dominica.

Friday, August 14 Episode 5
Antoinette and Rochester's honeymoon develops into an intense love affair in Dominica.

Monday, August 17 Episode 6
Antoinette and Rochester's intense love affair in Dominica is threatened by rumour and betrayal.

Tuesday, August 18 Episode 7
Antoinette asks her old nurse Christophine to help restore her marriage.

Wednesday, August 19 Episode 8
Rochester accuses his new wife Antoinette of betrayal and their ravaged Eden falls apart.

Thursday, August 20 Episode 9
Antoinette returns to her faithless husband who now has control of her estate.

Friday, August 21 Episode 10
Rochester has imprisoned Antoinette in the attic of his English home.

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