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Radio 4,02 Nov 2025,57 mins

Northanger Abbey

Drama on 4

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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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