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A Book at Bedtime

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Basil by wilkie Collins abridged for radio In 15 parts and read by Edward DeSouza (1) A gripping Victorian suspense melodrama In which the aristocratic young hero, Basil, develops a fatally passionate love for a shop-keeper's daughter- a relationship which brings him into contact with one of Wilkie Collins 's greatest Characters, the extraordinary Robert Mannton.
Producer CHERRY COOKSON long wave only

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Read By:
Edward Desouza
Unknown:
Wilkie Collins
Unknown:
Robert Mannton.
Source: Radio Times

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