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The Virginia Woolf BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Seven Full-Cast Dramatisations
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Glenister, Laura Fraser, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Fenella Woolgar, Full Cast
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
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Summary
The collected BBC radio adaptations of Virginia Woolf’s pioneering modernist novels, with star casts including Kristin Scott-Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave, Juliet Stevenson, Laura Fraser, Robert Glenister and Fenella Woolgar.
The Voyage Out
A sea voyage to South America turns into a journey of self-discovery for naïve Rachel Vinrace. Starring Laura Fraser, Rebecca Johnson and Bertie Carvel.
Night and Day
In pre-First World War London, aristocrat Katharine Hilbery and suffragette Mary Datchet have their assumptions about love challenged. Starring Kristin Scott-Thomas.
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece charts one day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, as she prepares to host an important party. Starring Fenella Woolgar.
To the Lighthouse
Centring around a summer home on Skye, Virginia Woolf’s landmark tale follows the Ramsay family and their guests before and after World War I. Starring Vanessa Redgrave, Juliet Stevenson and Robert Glenister.
Orlando
The adventures of time-travelling, gender-swapping poet Orlando, who is born male in Elizabethan England and dies female over 300 years later. Starring Jennie Stoller and David McAlister.
The Waves
In this radical ‘play-poem’, six characters look back on their childhood and first forays into adulthood, and reflect on the loss of their friend Percival. Starring Geraldine James and Anna Massey.
Between the Acts
An eccentric artist devises a pageant celebrating English history – but it is 1939, and the shadow of war hangs over England’s present. Starring Sarah Badel.
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- Sebrina Autumn Calkins
- 16-07-23
Enrapturing
Magical, soul-stirring words brought even more vibrantly to life by wonderful performances. I'm blown away.
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- Pamela
- 06-01-20
Fantastic Opportunity to Immerse in Virginia Woolf
What a fantastic opportunity to immerse in Woolf in these excellent productions of her novels. They completely manage to capture her lightness of touch and the complexity of the worlds she creates out of the everyday.. Highly recommended
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- Safist
- 20-05-21
Enthralling
Apart from some choices of voices in The Waves, this is a brilliant way of experiencing Virginia Woolf's work. Thoroughly enjoyable.
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- Marcos Simpson
- 01-07-22
wonderful
I'm new to Virginia Wolfe and this series, acted by a great ensemble of actors, is brilliantly produced, directed and performed.
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- mikki100
- 23-06-22
Great narration, but I didn't love it.
Great narration, but I didn't love it. Enjoyed some parts, endured others and indifferent to the rest.
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- Flossie16
- 09-02-20
A Must for All Those Who Revere Woolf
This is a comprehensive collection of radio dramas adapted from Virginia Woolf's classic books. It is produced with that care and high production values that we expect from Auntie (the BBC.)
I had tried twice to read The Voyage Out and never managed to complete it. Listening to the dramatisation brought the characters to life for me. It was intriguing and at length emotionally engaging. To the Lighthouse is a superb rendering of Woolf at her absolute best.
Between the Acts is fascinating because, while being at entirely different level, it runs strangely parallel to Benson's Mapp and Lucia. Here is the quirky English pageant in all its glory but between the acts the audience from the Big House is revealed in all its emotional and social complexity. Of course the most poignant resonance is that this is Woolf's last novel. By the time it lay on the publisher's desk (Leonard Woolf) she had filled her pockets with stones.
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- stella edwards
- 27-12-19
Confusing
Not my type of book. Beautifully written but I found it hard to follow the stories
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- Mr M Patel
- 04-05-19
Excellent, but give chapter info and sort typos
Great stories and performances, as you’d expect from BBC radio.
But please sort out typo in the associated info -‘Kristen’ Scott Thomas?
Also it’s difficult to navigate a 13 hour collection without knowing which chapters relate to which of the stories.
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