AuthorJohn Galsworthy
NarratorFull Cast
SeriesThe Forsyte Chronicles, Book 2
Duration6h 38m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Plays and Dramatisations
PublisherAudio Go Ltd
VersionAbridged
A Radio 4 dramatisation of John Galsworthy's second absorbing trilogy about the lives and loves of the Forsytes, with a star cast including Amanda Redman, Gary Bond and Belinda Lang. A Modern Comedy is a gripping dramatisation of Galsworthy's three classic books following the fortunes of the Forsytes throughout the Roaring Twenties. The White Monkey starts with Fleur married to Michael Mont and playing the role of society wife, but she is dissatisfied and unfulfilled. Her attempts to find happiness lead to trouble and she must turn to Soames for help...The Silver Spoon centres around a controversial libel action that sees Fleur pitted against spiteful socialite Marjorie Ferrar. Soon her husband Michael and father Soames are also dragged into the damaging court case. Swan Song sees lost loves reunited as Fleur and Jon meet after seven years apart. Their passion is reignited-but Jon is married and his wife, Anne, will not give up without a fight. Meanwhile, disaster strikes as Soames tries to save his beloved paintings from a fire...
Author: John Galsworthy
Author John Galsworthy
Narrator Stephen Kemble
SeriesThe Forsyte Saga, Book 4
Duration 9h
A new generation has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions. Set in the years following the First World War, the story moves to Soames Forsyte's daughter Fleur. She is now married to Michael Mont, but when her old love Jon returns after seven years, desire is rekindled and loyalties begin to divide.
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Author: John Galsworthy
Author John Galsworthy
Narrator Stephen Kemble
SeriesThe Forsyte Saga, Book 5
Duration 9h 55m
'The Silver Spoon' continues the tale of Soames' daughter Fleur. Married to Michael Mont, in line for a Barony, the story focuses on Michael's start in Parliament and Fleur's dissatisfaction with her marriage. The American, Frances Wilmont, enters the scene bringing news that Fleur's real love, Jon, forbidden to her as the son of her father's ex-wi...
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Author: John Galsworthy
Author John Galsworthy
Narrator Stephen Kemble
SeriesThe Forsyte Saga, Book 6
Duration 12h 7m
Michael Mont is succeeding in his public life in Parliament, but holds grave doubts about his private life and his wife, Fleur. Fleur's original love, Jon Forsyte, her cousin and the son of her father's ex-wife, returns to England where a meeting is inevitable. Fleur's undying love for Jon is disclosed.
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Author: William Shakespeare
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 1m
Foretold he will become King of Scotland and spurred on by his wife, Macbeth commits deadly treason to seize the throne. Once crowned, guilt and mistrust of all around him leads Macbeth to embark on a trail of bloodshed and murder to stay in power. But under the yoke of his brutal reign, civil war breaks out and a rebellious army gathers to overthr...
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Author: John Galsworthy
Author John Galsworthy
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Forsyte Chronicles, Book 3
Duration 6h 40m
A Radio 4 dramatisation of John Galsworthy's gripping trilogy that concludes the Forsyte Saga, featuring a star cast including Sophie Thompson, Dorothy Tutin, John Moffatt and Miranda Foster. The End of the Chapter is an adaptation of Galsworthy's three novels chronicling the lives of the Cherrells, cousins of the Forsytes. Maid in Waiting starts i...
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Lilies For Ladies and Other Stories
Author: Donald Stuart
Author Donald Stuart
Narrator William Franklyn
Duration 1h 38m
The history of crime detection has produced no more famous name than that of Sexton Blake...' William Franklyn stars as paperback hero Sexton Blake, with David Gregory as his assistant Tinker, in four original BBC Radio dramatisations from 1967. Lost from the BBC archives for over 40 years, these rediscovered episodes are presented for the very...
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Author: Tony Kushner
Author Tony Kushner
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 6h 53m
In this production, adapted especially for the listening experience, Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, and the entire cast recreate their acclaimed performances from the 2018 Tony Award-winning National Theatre revival of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. With narration by Bobby Cannavale and Edie Falco, and a musical score by Adria...
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Author: Julia Blackburn, BBC Radio 4
Author Julia Blackburn, BBC Radio 4
Narrator Various
Duration 42m
A BBC Radio 4 drama of mesmerising delicacy from Julia Blackburn, winner of the Pen Ackerley prize for memoir 2009, and daughter of poet Thomas Blackburn. Originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 29 March 2011. Thomas Blackburn was an alcoholic before he became a poet, but in spite of his drunken rages, his erratic behaviour and his crazy ob...
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Author: John Galsworthy
Author John Galsworthy
Narrator Martin Jarvis
SeriesThe Forsyte Saga, Book 2
Duration 5h 9m
The second part of John Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga, chronicling the downfall of an upper middle class family in the turbulent period of social change at the end of the 19th and start of the 20th centuries. This book tells of the struggle between Soames and his beautiful wife Irene, who leaves him but cannot persuade him to grant a divorce. While Soa...
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Author: John Galsworthy
Author John Galsworthy
Narrator Joseph Millson
Duration 3h 32m
Joseph Millson and Jessica Raine star in a brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation continuing John Galsworthy's saga of the Forsyte family spanning 50 years. Galsworthy's novels The Silver Spoon and Swan Song, dramatized here in 7 episodes, continue to follow Fleur Forsyte, as she falls in love with Jon, and later, escaping heartbreak, mar...
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