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The Woman in White

The Woman in White

BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation

by Wilkie Collins
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 15/05/2015

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Toby Stephens and Juliet Aubrey star in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Wilkie Collins chilling Gothic drama. A lonely stretch of road on Hampstead Heath is the venue for Walter Hartright s midnight first encounter with a mysteriously distressed figure in white. As he helps the woman to escape from unnamed pursuers, he has little understanding of the way she will affect his future. At Limmeridge House, in Cumberland, Walter meets and falls in love with Laura, who strangely resembles the woman in white. She, however, is soon to marry the financially embarrassed Sir Percival Glyde. Events at Limmeridge take a surprising turn when Anne Catherick arrives, and Walter recognizes her as the mystery figure. It appears that Anne s recent incarceration in a mental asylum was at the behest of Sir Percival, who is all too aware of the secret she holds. More than one life will be lost before Walter s mystery of the woman in white can be fully explained. A strong cast brings Wilkie Collins tale to life in this BBC Radio 4 production, recorded on location at Beacon Hill, London in 2001.
4 CDs, 228 minutes

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ISBN:
9781785290565
9781785290565
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
15-05-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
125x140x24mm
Weight:
0.2kg
Wilkie Collins

William Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824, the son of a successful and popular painter. On leaving school, he worked in the office of a tea merchant in the Strand before reading law as a student at Lincoln's Inn. However his real passion was for writing and, in 1850, he published his first novel, Antonina.

In 1851, the same year that he was called to the bar, he met and established a lifelong friendship with Charles Dickens. While Collins' fame rests on his best known works, The Woman in White and The Moonstone, he wrote over thirty books, as well as numerous short stories, articles and plays. He was a hugely popular writer in his lifetime. An unconventional individual, he never married but established long-term liaisons with two separate partners. He died in 1889.

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