Matilda - BBC Radio Children’s Drama - Roald Dahl

Written by Roald Dahl
Read by Lenny Henry, Full Cast
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 160 Kbps
Dramatization

Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she’s knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she’s a super-nerd and the teacher’s pet. But everything is not perfect in Matilda’s world…

For starters she has two of the most idiotic, self-centered parents who ever lived. Then there’s the large, busty nightmare of a school principal, Miss Trunchbull, a former hammer-throwing champion who flings children at will, and is approximately as sympathetic as a bulldozer.

Fortunately for Matilda, she has the inner resources to deal with such annoyances: astonishing intelligence, saintly patience, and an innate predilection for revenge….

A modern children’s classic dramatised in two parts by Charlotte Jones.

Narrator …… Lenny Henry
Matilda …… Lauren Mote
Miss Trunchbull …… Nichola McAuliffe
Mrs Wormwood …… Claire Rushbrook
Mr Wormwood …… John Biggins
Miss Honey …… Emerald O’Hanrahan
Mrs Phelps …… Kate Layden
Michael …… Ryan Watson
Bruce Bogtrotter …… Joshua Swinney
Nobby …… Rhys Jennings
Lavender …… Sinead Michael
Hortensia …… Lizzy Watts
Nigel …… Bertie Gilbert

Director: Claire Grove

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2009.

My recordings from BBC Sounds 156kbps VRB M4B