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?
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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