Wide Sargasso Sea in BBC Radio 7 (again)

A new chance to listen to listen to Margaret Busby's adaptation of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea on BBC Radio 7:

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

Monday to Friday, 3.00 PM

Monday, August 23 Episode 1
Tensions escalate amongst the former slaves on a Caribbean island.

Tuesday, August 24 Episode 2
Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway's mother marries an Englishman in Spanish Town, Jamaica.

Wednesday, August 25 Episode 3
Without her brother and parted from her mother, heiress Antoinette is sent off to school.

Thursday, August 26 Episode 4
Fresh from England, Rochester weds Creole heiress Antoinette and takes her to Dominica.

Friday, August 27 Episode 5
Antoinette and Rochester's honeymoon develops into an intense love affair in Dominica.

Monday, August 30 Episode 6
Antoinette and Rochester's intense love affair in Dominica is threatened by rumour and betrayal.

Tuesday, August 31 Episode 7
Antoinette asks her old nurse Christophine to help restore her marriage.

Wednesday, September 1 Episode 8
Rochester accuses his new wife Antoinette of betrayal and their ravaged Eden falls apart.

Thursday, September 2 Episode 9
Antoinette returns to her faithless husband who now has control of her estate.

Friday, September 3 Episode 10
Rochester has imprisoned Antoinette in the attic of his English home.

Categories: Audio-Radio, Wide Sargasso Sea