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It's summer. Rebecca is an unwilling visitor to Winterfold - taken
from the buzz of London and her friends and what she thinks is the
start of a promising romance. Ferelith already lives in Winterfold
- it's a place that doesn't like to let you go, and she knows it
inside out - the beach, the crumbling cliff paths, the village
streets, the woods, the deserted churches and ruined graveyards,
year by year being swallowed by the sea. Against her better
judgement, Rebecca and Ferelith become friends, and during that
long, hot, claustrophobic summer they discover more about each
other and about Winterfold than either of them really want to,
uncovering frightening secrets that would be best left long
forgotten. Interwoven with Rebecca and Ferelith's stories is that
of the seventeenth century Rector and Dr Barrieux, master of
Winterfold Hall, whose bizarre and bloody experiments into the
after-life might make angels weep, and the devil crow.
Feature-length animated adventure following tank engine Thomas
(voice of John Hasler) and his locomotive friends. After Thomas is
banished for causing some problems on the tracks he comes across a
pirate ship and finds himself on the hunt for the lost treasure of
Sodor Island. But he will have to race against time in order to
stop Sailor John (John Hurt) getting his hands on the treasure.
Will he succeed and get back in Sir Topham Hatt (Keith Wickham)'s
good books? The voice cast also includes Eddie Redmayne, Jamie
Campbell Bower and Olivia Colman.
**Winner of the Gold Award for Best Drama in the New York Festivals
Radio Awards 2018*** A BBC radio adaptation of the Pulitzer
Prize-winning book by Michael Cunningham, inspired by Virginia
Woolf's Mrs Dalloway Three separate women, living in different
locations and eras, are linked by their passion for Virginia
Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway. As they each live through a Tuesday in
June, their thoughts and experiences mirror each other and become
interwoven. In Richmond in 1923, Virginia Woolf struggles to write
a novel whose protagonist is Mrs Dalloway. In Los Angeles in 1949,
Laura ignores her chores and small son to sit in bed reading Mrs
Dalloway. In 1990s New York, Clarissa goes to buy flowers for a
party, mirroring the start of the fictional Mrs Dalloway's day. The
party is in honour of her sick friend Richard, who long ago dubbed
her Mrs Dalloway. As their stories intertwine, they converge to
become one, weaving together themes of storytelling, domestic
tension, friendship, love, loss, parental guilt, loneliness,
bisexuality and the challenges of hosting social rituals. Adapted
by Sony Award-winning dramatist Frances Byrnes, this affecting
dramatisation stars Fenella Woolgar as Virginia Woolf, Teresa
Gallagher as Laura and Rosamund Pike as Clarissa. 'I am so thrilled
by the BBC's production of my novel, The Hours, and - believe me -
a novelist does not thrill easily' - Michael Cunningham Directed by
Judith Kampfner and Polly Thomas Produced by Judith Kampfner A
Corporation For Independent Media production for BBC Radio 4
Duration: 2 hours approx.
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