Wuthering Heights - BBC Radio Drama - Emily Brontë

Written by Emily Brontë
Read by Full Cast, Susan Jameson
Format: M4B
Bitrate: Variable
Dramatization

Two dramatisations and an unabridged reading of Emily Brontë’s tempestuous ghostly tale of passions, betrayal and revenge on the wild moors.

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Wuthering Heights - Dramatised by Bryony Lavery

Mr Lockwood visits an unwelcoming house up on the Yorkshire moors. But how did brooding Heathcliff come to arrive at Wuthering Heights?

Five one-hour episodes.

Heathcliff … John Duttine
Cathy Earnshaw … Amanda Root
Catherine Heathcliff … Emma Fielding
Nellie Dean … Sharon Duce
Mr Lockwood … David Collings
Hindley … Jonathan Keeble
Hareton … Gary Cady
Joseph … Steve Hodson
Zillah … Becky Hindley
Mr Earnshaw/Mr Green … John Turner
Edgar … Paul Rhys
Isabella … Emily Watson
Mary/Frances … Jilly Bond
Mr Linton … Geoffrey Whitehead
Mrs Linton … Tessa Worsley
Dr Kenneth … John Hartley
Mrs Earnshaw … Patience Tomlinson

Children played by:
Sheridan Smith
Liam Barr
Naomi Bell
Felix Bell
Attase Mora

Producer: Janet Whitaker

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1995.

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Wuthering Heights - Dramatised by Rachel Joyce

Emily Brontë’s iconic love story. Her only novel is unforgettable, full of passion and darkness. Thrilling but haunting until the very end, uniquely bound to its setting on the bleak Yorkshire moors.

Nelly Dean is the voice of normality and reason in a world of chaos, darkness and intense passion. Heathcliff and Cathy’s love is the beating heart of the story, and even after Cathy’s death we hear her chilling and ghostly voice.

An intensely powerful and haunting soundscape weaves around the action as the two grow from children to adults and we witness the brutal actions that lead to Heathcliff’s own cruelty. Cruelty that shatters the lives of all those around him.

But even through Heathcliff’s destruction there is a redemptive ending filled with such mystery and lyricism it works like a spell.

Ten fifteen-minute episodes.

Heathcliff ….. Ben Batt
Cathy ….. Chloe Pirrie
Nelly ….. Emma Fielding
Mr Earnshaw ….. Clive Hayward
Hindley ….. Luke Bailey
Joseph ….. Philip Bretherton
Frances ….. Lauren Cornelius
Young Cathy ….. Rosie Boore
Young Heathcliff ….. Reuben Bainbridge
Edgar Linton ….. Ryan Whittle
Isabella Linton ….. Kerry Gooderson
Young Hareton ….. Ruben Cryer
Priest ….. Ryan Early
Hareton ….. Tom Glynn-Carney
Joseph ….. Philip Bretherton
Zilah ….. Georgie Glen
Catherine ….. Bryony Hannah
Young Linton ….. Charlie Brand
Older Linton ….. Oliver Zetterstrom

Director: Tracey Neale.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2018.

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Wuthering Heights - Read by Susan Jameson

Emily Brontë’s tempestuous tale of passions, betrayal and retribution on the wild moors.

Thirteen hours & twelve minutes in 34 chapters.

Produced by Ross Burman.

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All my recordings sourced from BBC Sounds.