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Monday, August 06, 2012

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A new radio adaptation of Jane Eyre will be broadcast on ABC Radio National (Australia). The series is divided in 15 episodes of 15 minutes:
The Book Reading
Jane Eyre

Monday-Friday 11:00 PM
Saturday (all week episodes)  8:15 PM  (Books+)

Abridger ... Lance Richardson
Reader ... Blazey Best
Producer ... Anne Wynter
Jane Eyre is a novel of passion - of anger, defiance, and of overwhelming desire. No novel, before or since, has caught so precisely the complex emotions of childhood, where feelings of powerlessness can mix with rage, and bitter sense of justice.

Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, where she endures loneliness and cruelty, and at a charity school with a harsh regime. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit, which prove necessary when she finds a position as governess at Thornfield Hall. But when she finds love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, the discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a choice. Should she stay with him and live with the consequences, or follow her conviction, even if it means leaving the man she loves?
August 6 Jane Eyre - Episode 1 Jane Eyre is an orphan who has been living with her uncle's family at Gateshead Hall, where she has been abused by her aunt and cousins.
August 7 Jane Eyre - Episode 2 Jane has been locked in The Red Room, the disused chamber in which her uncle died.
August 8 Jane Eyre - Episode 3 Jane meets Mr Brockelhurst for the first time.
August 9 Jane Eyre - Episode 4 Jane begins the next phase of her young life at Lowood School.
August 10 Jane Eyre - Episode 5 Having been accused of being a liar by Mr Brocklehurst, Jane receives help from Helen Burns and Miss Temple.
August 13 Jane Eyre - Episode 6 Eight years have passed and Jane is looking for new horizons.
August 14 Jane Eyre - Episode 7 While out walking Jane goes to the aid of an injured horseman.
August 15 Jane Eyre - Episode 8 Jane finally meets her employer, Edward Rochester.
August 16 Jane Eyre - Episode 9 Rochester sets out on a journey to a neighbouring estate.
August 17 Jane Eyre - Episode 10 Another strange and unexplained incident takes place at Thornfield.
August 20 Jane Eyre - Episode 11 Jane has returned to Thornfield after the death of her Aunt Reed.
August 21 Jane Eyre - Episode 12 After a month of intense preparation, Jane's wedding day has arrived.
August 22 Jane Eyre - Episode 13 With the revelation that Rochester has a wife still living, Jane makes a decision to leave Thornfield.
August 23 Jane Eyre - Episode 14 Jane is now the school mistress of a small village school in Morton.
August 24 Jane Eyre - Episode 15 Jane has located the isolated manor house where Rochester now resides.
Furthermore, on the Books+ programme which includes the weekly omnibus of Jane Eyre episodes (Saturday, 8:05 PM), there's something more, Charlotte Brontë's Life:
The Books Plus Book Reading Omnibus for this week is Charlotte Brontë's nineteenth-century novel Jane Eyre. Beginning as it does in Jane's childhood, we decided to present a story about the childhood of its author, found in the ABC's archives. This piece of very actorly narration from 1968 traces the lives and experiences of the three literary Brontë sisters, and includes extracts from letters and diaries of those who knew them including, most notably, Elizabeth Gaskell.
The narration is by theatre actor Margaret Webster, a woman who was born in the USA but also worked in Britain for many years. She was on stage in the 1930s and 1940s, before moving offstage for a successful career as a producer and director in the 1950s and 1960s.

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