Afternoon Play - Unseen Austen (25th September 2008) [WebRip (mp3)]

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Afternoon Play - Unseen Austen



By Judith French

Impertinent young Lydia Bennet discovers that it is her sister Elizabeth who is the heroine of Pride and Prejudice and that her own love life is all offstage. She sets about putting matters right.



Broadcast on: BBC Radio 4, 2:15pm Thursday 25th September 2008

Duration: 45 minutes

Category: Drama



From BBC Radio 4 Publicity:

In this inventive Afternoon Play, Austen-mania is debunked as Austen fan and writer Judith French imagines the off-stage adventures of the impertinent and impulsive younger sister of Lizzie Bennett – Lydia.



Young Lydia Bennett, bubbly, bosomy and besotted with boys, drives her sister, Elizabeth, mad with her complaints about their dreary life in dull old Longbourn, where nothing ever happens. So she's thrilled to find out she's to be whisked off to Brighton for the summer with the regiment. But events don't go quite as planned. After eloping with her sister's beau, the dashing George Wickham, she's devastated to learn that he is the novel's villain, that she's only in a back story and that the real story is continuing in Longbourn, with Elizabeth as its heroine. Lydia sets about putting matters right.



Judith French wrote and starred in an acclaimed one-woman show on the life of Jane Austen, My Solitary Elegance. Her radio work also includes the Sony-nominated Look No More Backward, dramatisations of Richardson's Pamela and The Dutch Mariner and the biographical fantasies One Man On A Stage (based on the life of Jerome K Jerome) and A Clown On God's Stage (about the inspirational First World War preacher Geoffrey Studdert-Kennedy).



Producer/Jonquil Panting





Lydia Bennet ...... Jodie Whittaker

Elizabeth Bennet ...... Clare Corbett

Mr Darcy ...... Gunnar Cauthery

Kitty Bennet ...... Jill Cardo

George Wickham ...... Chris Pavlo

Mr Bennet ...... Stephen Critchlow

Mrs Bennet ...... Janice Acquah.



Director: Jonquil Panting

Written by: Judith French





From VLC Media Info/Codec Details

Codec: mpga

Language: English

Type: Audio

Channels: 2

Sample rate: 44100 Hz

Bitrate: 128kb/s



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