Wuthering Heights
A full-cast BBC radio dramatisation
Published on 19. July 2018
Audio
CD-Audio
978-1-78529-952-0 (ISBN)
Description
Chloe Pirrie and Ben Batt star in this stunning dramatisation of Emily Bronte's classic, adapted by bestselling author Rachel Joyce
When homeless orphan Heathcliff is brought to the isolated, storm-swept farmhouse of Wuthering Heights, he sparks very different emotions in the children of the house, Hindley and Cathy. While Hindley instantly hates him and makes his life miserable, Heathcliff finds a soulmate in Cathy and the two spend days playing together on the wild Yorkshire moors.
Inseparable as children, passionately in love as adolescents, they are everything to each other - until Cathy meets the wealthy, handsome Edgar Linton and agrees to marry him. Consumed by jealousy and resentment, Heathcliff flees, returning three years later rich and seeking revenge.
Bitter and cruel, he vows to destroy everyone who has hurt him - and his hatred and vengeance will ruin the lives of two generations before it runs its course...
First published in 1847, Wuthering Heights scandalized Victorian readers with its shocking portrayal of obsession and doomed love. This radio production, dramatised by Rachel Joyce, retains all the force and intensity of Emily Bronte's masterpiece.
Cast
Nelly........................Emma Fielding
Young Cathy........................Rosie Boore
Young Heathcliff........................Reuben Bainbridge
Hindley........................Luke Bailey
Mr Earnshaw........................Clive Hayward
Joseph........................Philip Bretherton
Frances/Mary (Servant girl)........................Lauren Cornelius
Edgar/Linton (adult)........................Ryan Whittle
Servant 1/Priest........................Ryan Early
Servant 2........................Philip Bretherton
Adult Cathy........................Chloe Pirrie
Adult Heathcliff........................Ben Batt
Isabella........................Kerry Gooderson
Hareton........................Ruben Cryer/Tom Glynn-Carney
Dr Kenneth........................Clive Hayward
Linton (Young child)........................Charlie Brand
Zillah (Servant)........................Georgie Glen
Catherine (adult)........................Bryony Hannah
Linton (Older child)........................Oliver Zetterstrom
Produced and Directed by Tracey Neale
Production Coordinator: Joanne Hopper
Studio Managers: Cal Knightley, Anne Bunting and Jenni Burnett
Approx 2 hours 20 mins on 2CDs
When homeless orphan Heathcliff is brought to the isolated, storm-swept farmhouse of Wuthering Heights, he sparks very different emotions in the children of the house, Hindley and Cathy. While Hindley instantly hates him and makes his life miserable, Heathcliff finds a soulmate in Cathy and the two spend days playing together on the wild Yorkshire moors.
Inseparable as children, passionately in love as adolescents, they are everything to each other - until Cathy meets the wealthy, handsome Edgar Linton and agrees to marry him. Consumed by jealousy and resentment, Heathcliff flees, returning three years later rich and seeking revenge.
Bitter and cruel, he vows to destroy everyone who has hurt him - and his hatred and vengeance will ruin the lives of two generations before it runs its course...
First published in 1847, Wuthering Heights scandalized Victorian readers with its shocking portrayal of obsession and doomed love. This radio production, dramatised by Rachel Joyce, retains all the force and intensity of Emily Bronte's masterpiece.
Cast
Nelly........................Emma Fielding
Young Cathy........................Rosie Boore
Young Heathcliff........................Reuben Bainbridge
Hindley........................Luke Bailey
Mr Earnshaw........................Clive Hayward
Joseph........................Philip Bretherton
Frances/Mary (Servant girl)........................Lauren Cornelius
Edgar/Linton (adult)........................Ryan Whittle
Servant 1/Priest........................Ryan Early
Servant 2........................Philip Bretherton
Adult Cathy........................Chloe Pirrie
Adult Heathcliff........................Ben Batt
Isabella........................Kerry Gooderson
Hareton........................Ruben Cryer/Tom Glynn-Carney
Dr Kenneth........................Clive Hayward
Linton (Young child)........................Charlie Brand
Zillah (Servant)........................Georgie Glen
Catherine (adult)........................Bryony Hannah
Linton (Older child)........................Oliver Zetterstrom
Produced and Directed by Tracey Neale
Production Coordinator: Joanne Hopper
Studio Managers: Cal Knightley, Anne Bunting and Jenni Burnett
Approx 2 hours 20 mins on 2CDs
Reviews / Votes
Emily Bronte's Tale of all-consuming love is an omnipotent force to be reckoned with. It's an intoxicating read-Marie ClaireA beautiful gift, and perfect gems for bookworms.-So Darling
A dark and passionate tale of tortured but enduring love... Mesmerising-Guardian
This brilliantly atmospheric Yorkshire saga has only one drawback - Emily never wrote another novel. For me, it is both fantastic but also true to life because the protagonists have such believably fierce emotions-Kate Mosse
When I was 16 I read Wuthering Heights for the first time, and I read it as a kind of oracle; that life is worth nothing if it is not worth everything. Disaster does not matter, intensity does. You can dilute Wuthering Heights, as Mills & Boon and musicals have done. But if you are honest, you cannot escape its central stark premise; all or nothing. The all is not Heathcliff - that is the sentimental version. The all is what Heathcliff represents, which is life itself-Jeanette Winterson
Only Emily Bronte exposes her imagination to the dark spirit-V. S. Pritchett
Hers...is the rarest of all powers. She could free life from its dependence on facts...by speaking of the moor make the wind blow and the thunder roar-Virginia Woolf
Commonly thought of as 'romantic', but try rereading it without being astonished by the comfortableness with which Bronte's characters subject one another to extremes of physical and psychological violence-Sarah Waters
Lambasted when it came out as irredeemably perverse and, I quote, as practically "French"'-A. L. Kennedy
The greatest love story ever told, Heathcliff the hero being a wild, stormy, gothic fellow who will not rest until his beloved Cathy is in his arms again, even though she died some years previously. My favourite moment comes when he bribes the sexton who buried Cathy to bury him next to her, with the sides of their coffins left open, so when they're dug up 50 years hence nobody will know which bones are his, and which are hers-Patrick McGrath
More details
Edition
Unabridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
BBC Audio, A Division Of Random House
Edition type
Unabridged edition
Product notice
Audio CD
Dimensions
Height: 142 mm
Width: 124 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Duration
Dauer: 140 min
Weight
105 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78529-952-0 (9781785299520)
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Rachel Joyce is the author of the Sunday Times and international bestsellers The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Perfect, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, The Music Shop, Miss Benson's Beetle and a collection of interlinked short stories, A Snow Garden & Other Stories. Her new novel, Maureen Fry & the Angel of the North is out now. The film of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry will be released on 28 April 2023.
Rachel's books have been translated into thirty-six languages. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book prize and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Rachel was awarded the Specsavers National Book Awards 'New Writer of the Year' in December 2012 and shortlisted for the 'UK Author of the Year' 2014.
Rachel has also written over twenty original afternoon plays and adaptations of the classics for BBC Radio 4, including all the Bronte novels. She moved to writing after a long career as an actor, performing leading roles for the RSC, the National Theatre and Cheek by Jowl.
She lives with her family in Gloucestershire.
Rachel's books have been translated into thirty-six languages. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book prize and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Rachel was awarded the Specsavers National Book Awards 'New Writer of the Year' in December 2012 and shortlisted for the 'UK Author of the Year' 2014.
Rachel has also written over twenty original afternoon plays and adaptations of the classics for BBC Radio 4, including all the Bronte novels. She moved to writing after a long career as an actor, performing leading roles for the RSC, the National Theatre and Cheek by Jowl.
She lives with her family in Gloucestershire.