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Northanger Abbey

byJane Austen, Amanda Root (Read by), Julia McKenzie (Read by), Jenny Agutter (Read by), Full Cast (Read by), David Harewood (Read by)

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

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In this BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of one of Jane Austen's most beloved works, Catherine Morland's overactive imagination makes her life more complicated than she would have wished...

Catherine is obsessed with Gothic novels, often getting swept up by her taste for the dramatic and tragic. Did Mrs Tilney really die nine years previously, or has she been murdered or imprisoned in her chambers this whole time?

Meanwhile she is torn between two suitors, the handsome and clever Henry Tilney and the arrogant John Thorpe....

Published over 200 years ago, Northanger Abbey remains one of the British nation's favourite novels. Among the star cast in this radio production are Amanda Root, David Harewood, Julia McKenzie, and Jenny Agutter.

This title is part of the BBC's Jane Austen collection.
© 2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (p) 2020 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

About Jane Austen

Jane Austen, the daughter of a clergyman, was born in Hampshire in 1775, and later lived in Bath and the village of Chawton. As a child and teenager, she wrote brilliantly witty stories for her family's amusement, as well as a novella, Lady Susan. Her first published novel was Sense and Sensibility, which appeared in 1811 and was soon followed by Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma. Austen died in 1817, and Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published posthumously in 1818.
Details
  • Imprint: BBC Digital Audio
  • ISBN: 9781529141702
  • Length: 171 minutes
  • Price: £9.00