The Tenant in Radio 4

A new radio adaptation of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall begins today, November 28. The whole adaptation runs for 150 minutes and will be broadcast in ten episodes (15 minutes each) included in BBC Radio Four's Woman's Hour:

BBC Radio Four
Monday to Friday: 10:45 AM / Repeat: 19:45 AM
BBC Radio Four Extra
Saturday: 12:00 PM (Omnibus: All the episodes of the week) / Repeat: 02:00 AM

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by Anne Brontë

In Anne Brontë’s The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall, Helen Graham is the mysterious new tenant with a dark and painful past.

As gentleman farmer Gilbert Markham becomes powerfully drawn to this enigmatic widow he discovers her turbulent past.
Dramatised by Rachel Joyce, The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall is seen as a powerful sister-novel to Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and partly set in a similarly remote moorland place. The story incorporates two narrative viewpoints in two literary forms - Gilbert's letters frame Helen's diary which she eventually gives him to read and from which listeners learn of the awful events of her tempestuous marriage to Arthur Huntingdon that have precipitated her need to seek anonymity and seclusion at Wildfell Hall.

Dramatised by Rachel Joyce

Directed by  David Hunter

Gilbert ... Robert Lonsdale

Helen  ...  Hattie Morahan

Huntingdon ... Leo Bill

Arthur ... Samuel Bridger

Mrs Markham ... Carolyn Pickles

Rose ... Leah Brotherhead

Annabella ... Emerald O'Hanrahan

Hargrave ... Stephen Critchlow

Lowborough ... Chris Webster

Miss Myers ... Alex Rivers

Lawrence ... Carl Prekopp

Eliza Victoria ... Inez Hardy

Rev Millward ... Gerard McDermott

Mrs Maxwell ... Tracy Wiles

Boarham ...  James Lailey

Episode 1: The Tenant

Episode 2:  A Snake in the Grass
Episode 3: Assault

Epiosde 4: The Warnings of Experience

Episode 5: Matrimony