Georges - BBC Radio Dramatisation - Alexandre Dumas

Written by Alexandre Dumas
Read by Full Cast
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Dramatization

GEORGES BY ALEXANDRE DUMAS

A swashbuckling epic that tackles racism head-on in a bold new adaptation by Testament of Alexandre Dumas’ rediscovered novel.

It is the early nineteenth century. Georges is the young son of wealthy planter Pierre Munier on the slave colony of the Isle de France. The family is ‘mixed race’, but they are shunned by the other plantation owners as racially inferior.

The island is soon under threat from the British, and the Munier family are ready to join the inhabitants and defend the colony. But will the ‘Whites’ allow them to? What transpires seeds Georges hatred of the plantation owners and fuels his future revenge.

This is Dumas’ most personal novel as he tackles the racism of his society. This has resonances for a young writer of colour who is trying to adapt the novel.

Georges/The Writer ….. Jamael Westman
Pierre/Dumas ….. Peter Landi
Laiza/Young Jacques ….. Darragh Hand
Jacques ….. Testament
James/Telemaque/Antonio ….. Adetomiwa Edun
Malmedie ….. David Acton
Henri ….. Samuel James
Sarah ….. Kymberley Cochrane
Murray ….. Ewan Bailey
Mika-Mika ….. Chike Chan
Young Georges ….. Rayyan Chihi
Young Henri ….. Zac Barker

Production Co-ordinator - Vicky Moseley
Tech Team - Keith Graham, Ann Bunting, Alison Craig
Sound Design - Sharon Hughes

Director/Producer Gary Brown

A BBC Audio Drama North Production.

First broadcast February and March 2023.

M4B losslessly compiled from 128kbps ABR downloads.

Also included,

ALEXANDRE DUMAS: THE MAN BEHIND THE MUSKETEERS

The word ’swashbuckling’ is often used to describe the novels of Alexandre Dumas the Elder, the creator of D’Artagnan and the Three Musketeers, the Count of Monte Cristo and the Man in the Iron Mask. But Dumas himself led a life as colourful as many of his gallery of rogues, villains and heroes.

Having grown up in poverty, he found employment in the household of a future king of France. He was prolific on the page and pretty active away from it. At first with a series of highly successful plays and then with serialised novels, his production house churned out hundreds of thousands of pages of gripping narrative.

He had pet projects like building a mansion and theatre, he had countless mistresses and he frequently found himself in legal disputes and on the run from debt collectors.

In the 150th anniversary year of Dumas’ death Rajan Datar explores the writer’s life and work with Claudie Bernard, professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture at New York University; Daniel Desormeaux, professor of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore; Sylvain Ledda, professor of 19th Century Literature at Rouen University in France; and Anne O’Neil-Henry, associate professor of French and Francophone Studies at Georgetown University in Washington.

Broadcast on the World Service on 3rd Dec 2020.

See also my torrent of The Count of Monte Cristo,

https://audiobookbay.lu/abss/the-count-of-monte-cristo-bbc-radio-drama-alexandre-dumas/