AuthorAnthony Trollope
NarratorVarious
Duration18h 49m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Classics
PublisherBBC
VersionAbridged
A new edition of the acclaimed Radio 4 dramatisations of Anthony Trollope's gently satirical tales of provincial life, together in one box set. Nearly twenty hours of ironic and witty drama is contained in this box set. The full-star cast includes Anna Massey, Alex Jennings, David Haig, Rosemary Leach, Kenneth Cranham, Emma Fielding and Brenda Blethyn.
Palliser Series Book 2: Phineas Finn
Author: Anthony Trollope
Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Simon Vance
SeriesPalliser Series, Book 2
Duration 22h 33m
Phineas Finn is an Irish MPA who is climbing the political ladder, largely through the assistance of his string of lovers. The questions he is forced to ask himself about honesty, independence, and parliamentary democracy are questions still asked today. Phineas Finn is the second of Anthony Trollope's six Palliser novels, which together comprise...
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Palliser Series Book 6: The Duke's Children
Author: Anthony Trollope
Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Simon Vance
Duration 19h 57m
The brilliant conclusion to the Palliser novels, this touching story follows the elderly Duke of Omnium, the former prime minister of England, as he struggles to overcome his grief at the loss of his beloved wife, Lady Glencora. To complicate matters, he must also deal with the willfulness of his three adult children as he tries to guide and suppor...
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Chronicles of Barsetshire Series Book 6: The Last Chronicle of Barset
Author: Anthony Trollope
Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 6
Duration 4h 46m
The acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Anthony Trollope's classic story of provincial life.
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Palliser Series Book 3: The Eustace Diamonds
Author: Anthony Trollope
Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Simon Vance
SeriesPalliser Series, Book 3
Duration 23h 58m
The third and least political novel of the Palliser series, The Eustace Diamonds concerns the beautiful pathological liar Lizzie Greystock. Determined to marry into wealth, Lizzie snares the ailing Sir Florian Eustace and quickly becomes a widow. Despite the brevity of their marriage, Lizzie still inherits according to the generous terms of Sir Flo...
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Author: Anthony Trollope
Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator David Shaw- Parker
Duration 37h 8m
Augustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign financier who preys on dissolute nobility - using charm to tempt the weak into making foolish investments in his dubious schemes. Persuaded to put money into a notional plot to run a railroad from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, the capricious gambler Felix Carbury soon becomes one of his victims. But as Melmo...
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Author: Anthony Trollope
Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 50m
The American Senator By Anthony Trollope. Dramatised by Martyn Wade. Part Two Lord Rufford has kissed Arabella twice but she realises that much more needs to be done to win him and his estate. It is now time to tell John Morton she no longer wants to marry him? Starring Robert Glenister, Anna Maxwell Martin, Barbara Flynn, Blake Ritson, Stuart Mill...
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Author: Anthony Trollope
Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 50m
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast Unabridged by Martyn Wade of Anthony Trollope's classic novel, Orley Farm. This novel, described as a "... brilliantly choreographed legal thriller" (Mail on Sunday), centres on the pathos of the main character, Lady Mason. Youthful marriage choices, middle-aged marital crisis, love and loss revolve around the legal action a...
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Miss Mackenzie & Neglected Classic
Author: Anthony Trollope
Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 53m
Both episodes of the BBC Radio 4 two-part dramatisation of Anthony Trollope's classic Miss Mackenzie, a tale of a woman, past the bloom of youth, who inherits a fortune and is then beset by suitors from which to choose. Originally broadcast on 9 and 16 January 2011 in the 'Classic Serial' slot. Miss Mackenzie by Trollope was the runner-up in Radio...
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Palliser Series Book 1: Can You Forgive Her?
Author: Anthony Trollope
Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Simon Vance
SeriesPalliser Series, Book 1
Duration 27h 34m
Can You Forgive Her? is the first of the six Palliser novels. Here Trollope examines parliamentary election and marriage, politics and privacy. As he dissects the Victorian upper class, issues and people shed their pretenses under his patient, ironic probe. Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the...
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Palliser Series Book 4: Phineas Redux
Author: Anthony Trollope
Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Simon Vance
SeriesPalliser Series, Book 4
Duration 23h 5m
His beloved wife having died in childbirth Phineas Finn finds Irish society and his job as a poorhouse inspector dull and unsatisfying particularly after the excitement of his former career as a Member of Parliament Back in England the Whigs are determined to overturn the Tory majority in the Parliament of the United Kingdom Since Finn had once bee...
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