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Fullcast dramatisations of John Fowles three bestknown novels with star casts
John Fowles won international acclaim for his innovative allusive novels The Collector The Magus and The French Lieutenants Woman All were critical and commercial successes translated into several languages and adapted as feature films This collection brings together the BBC Radio adaptations of these three modern classics with stellar casts including Judi Dench Charles Dance and John Hurt
The Collector When a lonely obsessional office clerk wins a fortune on the football pools he turns from collecting butterflies to collecting a beautiful art student This dark disturbing dramatisation stars Judi Dench and Nigel Anthony
The Magus Disillusioned young graduate Nick Urfe accepts a teaching post on an idyllic Greek island There he meets the mysterious Maurice Conchis and becomes embroiled in a world of bizarre encounters and psychological tricks As reality and illusion intertwine what strange game is Conchis playing with Nick Tom Burke Charles Dance and Hayley Atwell star in this eerie Lynchian drama
The French Lieutenants Woman Lyme Regis 1867 Gentleman naturalist Charles Smithson is engaged to be married to the respectable Ernestina but when he falls in love with notorious social outcast Sarah Woodruff his complacent snobbery is shattered Narrated by John Hurt this multilayered tale of forbidden passions in Victorian Dorset stars Jonathan Firth and Emily Bruni
Text copyright John Fowles 1963 The Collector 1966 1977 The Magus 1969 The French Lieutenants Woman
The Collector
Miranda Judi Dench
Clegg Nigel Anthony
Other parts played by Douglas Blackwell Martin Friend Jane Knowles and John Rowe
Adapted by David Parker
Produced by Richard Wortley
First broadcast BBC Radio 4 31 July 1972
The Magus
Nick Tom Burke
Conchis Charles Dance
Lily Hayley Atwell
Alison Anna Skellern
Margaret Josie Taylor
Mitford David Seddon
Meli Chris Pavlo
Rowena LynseyAnne Moffat
Anton Maarten Dannenberg
German Colonel Bodo Friesecke
Greek resistance fighter/Ticket seller Andreas Karras
Lily de Seitas Beth Goddard
Kemp Rachel Atkins
Briggs Michael Shelford
Mrs Marks Elaine Claxton
Benji Rudi Goodman
Adapted by Adrian Hodges
Produced and directed by Heather Larmour
Harpsichordist Maggie Cole
Recorder player Martin Feinstein
First broadcast BBC Radio 4 20 March3 April 2016
The French Lieutenants Woman
Narrator John Hurt
Charles Jonathan Firth
Sarah Emily Bruni
Ernestina Kelly Reilly
Mrs Tranter Elizabeth Spriggs
Dr Grogan TP McKenna
Mrs Poulteney/Mrs Endicott Susan Jameson
Sam Nick Sayce
Mary Ella Smith
Dairyman/Mr Freeman Gerard McDermott
Mrs Fairley/Mrs Rogers Colleen Prendergast
Ostler/Montague Wayne Foskett
Prostitute Sophie Roberts
Curate John Cummins
Dramatised by Graham White
Produced by Peter Kavanagh
First broadcast BBC World Service 2330 September 2006
2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
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