Tom Brown 's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes adapted as a reading in five parts by ANGELA JESSON
Read by MICHAEL TUDOR BARNES
1: Early Days. Tom finds a plac among the Browns of Berkshire and leaves home for the first time
Tom Brown 's Schooldays has been dramatised before, and filmed, and televised-but each new generation must gain pleasure from comparing their own schooldays with the strict and unyielding but strangely liberal discipline of Dr. Arnold at Rugby School. Tom Brown , unconventionally brought up in his father's squirearchy in Berkshire, is sent to Rugby. There he meets with the friendly, likeable East, the bully Flashman, and the simple, vulnerable Arthur: and as we listen to Tom's progress through the school we watch in parallel the progress of our own maturity.
Produced by Anthony Cornish
Michael Tudor Barnes is a National Theatre player