A new chance to listen to listen to Margaret Busby's adaptation of Jean Rhys's
Wide Sargasso Sea on BBC Radio 4 Extra:
Wide Sargasso Sea (first aired on May 2004)
Read by Adjoa Andoh
Abridged by Margaret Busby
Monday to Friday, 2.30 PM
Monday, April 28 Episode 1
Tensions escalate amongst the former slaves on a Caribbean island.
Tuesday, April 29 Episode 2
Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway's mother marries an Englishman in Spanish Town, Jamaica.
Wednesday, April 30 Episode 3
Without her brother and parted from her mother, heiress Antoinette is sent off to school.
Thursday, May 1 Episode 4
Fresh from England, Rochester weds Creole heiress Antoinette and takes her to Dominica.
Friday, May 2 Episode 5Antoinette and Rochester's honeymoon develops into an intense love affair in Dominica.
Monday, May 5 Episode 6
Antoinette and Rochester's intense love affair in Dominica is threatened by rumour and betrayal.
Tuesday, May 6 Episode 7
Antoinette asks her old nurse Christophine to help restore her marriage.
Wednesday, May 7 Episode 8
Rochester accuses his new wife Antoinette of betrayal and their ravaged Eden falls apart.
Thursday, May 8 Episode 9
Antoinette returns to her faithless husband who now has control of her estate.
Friday, May 9 Episode 10
Rochester has imprisoned Antoinette in the attic of his English home.
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