BBC Radio Drama Collection - Mark Twain Audiobook

Written by Mark Twain
Read by Full Cast
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Dramatization

Mark Twain: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Million Pound Bank Note & More
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: full cast, Jason Isaacs, Kelsey Grammer, Tom Goodman-Hill, Inika Leigh Wright, Trevor White, Ed Bishop, Jon Glover
Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
Radio/TV Program
Release date: 12-05-2022
Language: English
Publisher: BBC Audio

BBC radio productions of Mark Twain’s very best novels and short stories—plus bonus material.

Mark Twain (real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens), was one of the foremost writers and humourists to come out of the United States. Hailed by William Faulkner as ‘the father of American literature’, he is renowned worldwide for his classic novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This wide-ranging collection comprises dramatisations and readings of a host of his much-loved stories, from well-known works to less familiar gems.

The adaptations include Tony Award-winning Bryony Lavery’s rhythmic reworking of The Million Pound Bank Note; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, dramatised by award-winning playwright Marcy Kahan and The Diary of Adam and Eve, Twain’s affectionate satire about the battle of the sexes. They are performed by full casts including Trevor White, Mark Caven, Christopher Jacot, Inika Leigh Wright and Tom Goodman-Hill.

Among the readings are an abridged version of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, in which Ed Bishop brings Tom’s escapades to colourful life; the little-known yarn The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (read by Jon Glover) telling the tall tale of an inveterate gambler and a talented amphibian and The Prince and the Pauper (read by Jason Isaacs), an abridgement of Twain’s historical fantasy about two identical boys born on the same day—one rich, the other poor. And in Mark Twain Stories, Frasier star Kelsey Grammer reads five of the great author’s finest short stories.

Also included is Kaleidoscope Feature: The Further Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, charting the troubled 100-year history of Twain’s controversial novel, which has gone from being banned to being beloved—and back again.

Please note: contains language that listeners may find offensive.

Cast and credits:

Written by Mark Twain. First published 1867 (The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County), 1868 (Cannibalism in the Cars), 1870 (The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract, A Ghost Story), 1875 (The Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup, Niagara), 1876 (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer), 1881 (The Prince and the Pauper), 1884 (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), 1893 (The Million Pound Bank Note), 1931 (The Private Life of Adam and Eve).

The Million Pound Bank Note

Dramatised by Bryony Lavery. Produced by Pauline Harris and Sharon Sephton.

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 31st December 2011.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Abridged by Brian Miller. Read by Ed Bishop. First broadcast BBC Radio 5, 20th - 31st May 1991.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Dramatised by Marcy Kahan. Directed by Ned Chaillet. First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 15th - 29th December 2002.

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Read by Jon Glover. Produced by Mitch Raper. First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 4th September 1978.

The Diary of Adam and Eve

Dramatised by Martin Glynn. Produced by Jenny Stephens. Directed by Peter Leslie Wild.

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 20th March 2005.

The Prince and the Pauper

Read by Jason Isaacs. First broadcast BBC7, 17th October 2009.

Mark Twain Stories: The Facts in the Great Beef Contract, A Day at Niagara, Cannibalism in the Cars, A Ghost Story and Experiences of the MacWilliamses

Read by Kelsey Grammar. Abridged and produced by Duncan Minshull. First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 15th - 19th September 1997.

Kaleidoscope Feature: The Further Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Produced by Paul Quinn. First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 25th May 1996.

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