I capture the castle [electronic resource] : A bbc radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Dodie Smith.
Toby Jones and Holliday Grainger star in a new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Dodie Smith's enduringly popular coming-of-age novel In the 1930s, seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain lives in a crumbling ruin of a castle in the Suffolk countryside. Her father, an author wrestling with writer's block, spends his time reading detective stories; her bohemian stepmother Topaz is an artist's model, and her beautiful older sister Rose is determined to escape the poverty of their existence – ideally by marriage to a rich man. Intelligent and observant, Cassandra chronicles the eccentricities of her relations in her journal, in a bid to capture her family and their lives at the castle. When two rich American brothers, Simon and Neil Cotton, arrive unexpectedly, the family's isolation is disrupted. Rose accepts a marriage proposal from Simon, and as she is whisked off to a world of wealth in London, Cassandra is left to deal with the increasingly bizarre behaviour of her father – as well as her own feelings for Simon... Dodie Smith's charming, funny and poignant love story is a classic of 20th-Century English literature and this sparkling adaptation, starring Toby Jones and Holliday Grainger, will enchant and delight. Duration: 2 hours
Record details
- ISBN: 9781785292620 (sound recording)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (2 audio files) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: London : BBC Digital Audio, 2016.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Unabridged. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrator: Holliday Grainger. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 53386 KB). |
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