Northanger Abbey
By Jane Austen. Dramatised by Clara Glynn. Catherine Morland enters fashionable society in Bath, where she finds high drama and peril in every encounter - often with comic results.
by Jane Austen
dramatised by Clara Glynn
Austen's early novel is a coming-of-age narrative and a satire on the 1790s vogue for the sensationalist Gothic novel.
Broadcast to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen.
Part One
Seventeen year old Catherine Morland is invited to Bath by a rich neighbour. Entering the fashionable society of the city, Catherine finds high drama and peril in every encounter and in every event - often with comic results. And then she receives an extraordinary, and thrilling, invitation.
Catherine Morland ..... Madeleine Gray
Henry TIlney ..... Will Howard
Isabella Thorpe ..... Cecilia Appiah
Mrs Allen ..... Ella Smith
General Tilney ..... John Heffernan
Eleanor Tilney ..... Scarlett Courtney
Mrs Morland/Mrs Thorpe ..... Jasmine Hyde
John Thorpe ..... Josh Bryant-Jones
James Morland/Captain Tilney ..... Django Bevan
Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane
Sound by Keith Graham and Sam Dickinson
Production Coordinator - Bethany Woodhead
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Broadcast
- Sunday 15:00蜜芽传媒 Radio 4
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