Bleak House (BBC Radio Collection) - Charles Dickens Audiobook

Written by Charles Dickens
Read by Michael Kitchen
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

© BBC Audiobooks Ltd 1999, 2006
Publisher: AudioGO Ltd
Release date: October 4, 2006
Duration: 05:18:20

Michael Kitchen stars as John Jarndyce in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Dickens’ classic tale of London and the law.

This full-cast dramatization is stunningly good at reproducing the ambience of nineteenth-century London and the emotional texture of Charles Dickens’s novel. The musical score enhances the claustrophobic tension of the story. The sound effects are both impressively layered and well chosen to create emotional impact, simulate the passage of time, and, most challenging, give the sense of changing relationships. However, the novel’s twisting plot and numerous characters make the production hard to follow at times, so much so that despite its superior quality, this production is recommended primarily to those who already know the novel well. G.T.B. (c) AudioFile 2005,

BBC Audiobooks LLC, and AudioGo no longer exist. The BBC Radio Collection is now owned by Random House. Audible owns the BBC audiobooks not returned to Blackstone Audio.

Cast:
Michael Kitchen … John Jarndyce
Claire Price … Esther Summerson
Honeysuckle Weeks … Ada Clare
Robert Portal … Richard Carstone
Michael Fenton Stevens … Harold Skimpole
John Shrapnel … Kenge
Rob Jarvis … Guppy
Danny Worters … Jo
Brendan O’Hea … Woodcourt
Ellie Haddington … Miss Barbary/Hortense
Daisy Beaumont … Lady Deadlock
Anton Lesser … Tulkinghorn
Berwick Kaler … Inspector Bucket/Sir Leicester Dedlock
Michael Atwell … Krook
Jean Marsh … Miss Flite
Greg Hicks … Snagsby
Jonathon Oliver … Vholes
Eamon Boland … George
Roger Frost … Smallweed
with Charlie Hayes, Tamara King, Suzanne Rainforth,
Dell Synott, Hugh Terry.

Music by Sacha Puttnam and Nick Russell Pavier.

First broadcast on Radio 4 in 1998