MANSFIELD PARK on BBC7 digital radio, starring Amanda Root
Alert Janeite Marybeth wrote to tell us that BBC7 digital radio will be broadcasting a radio play of MANSFIELD PARK, starring Amanda Root. (We have it on tape! It’s pretty good.) The play will be broadcast Monday the 27th to Wednesday the 29th at 10 am, 9 pm and 2 am (GMT we imagine), and you can listen online for up to a week afterward, so make haste!
March 23rd, 2006 at 9:37 pm
I have it on tape and I adore it! I only wish Amanda Root had played Fanny on film when she was younger, but then maybe I might not consider her as good an Anne as I thought she made in P2!
March 27th, 2006 at 8:22 pm
Yay! I just finished the first episode. I can’t wait for the next ones - and after that, they’re airing Emma and Persuasion. I loved hearing familiar actors - not only Root (who would have made an excellent film Fanny - too bad. Oh, well, have to wait for Andrew Davies’ version to come out in five or so years), but also Michael Williams (from the BBC’s Sherlock Holmes radio drama, and Radio Theatre’s Silas Marner) and Cathy Sara (from Radio Theatre’s The Secret Garden, Silas Marner, and Father Gilbert: Healing). Oooh, stuff to listen to while I do laundry…
March 29th, 2006 at 6:42 pm
[...] Alert Janeites Julia and Lynne wrote to tell us that in addition to broadcasting MANSFIELD PARK (which we posted about previously), BBC7 is also doing broadcasts of EMMA (from Thursday the 30th to Saturday the 1st at 10 am, 9 pm and 2 am) and PERSUASION (from Monday the 3rd to Thursday the 6th at the same times). From the looks of it, Juliet Stevenson (from E3) will be featured in PERSUASION. [...]