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A Consoling Blue

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

by MICHELENE WANDOR based on the letters of Jean Rhys edited by FRANCIS WYNDHAM and DIANA MELLY
The novelist Jean Rhys 's obsession with the character of the first Mrs Rochester in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre led her to write one of her finest books, Wide Sargasso Sea. Producer CHERRY COOKSON
(R) Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Rhys
Edited By:
Francis Wyndham
Edited By:
Diana Melly
Unknown:
Jean Rhys
Unknown:
Mrs Rochester
Unknown:
Jane Eyre
Jean Rhys:
With Brenda Bruce
Antoinette:
Mia Soteriou
Jane Eyre:
Janet Maw
Mr Rochester:
John Church
Source: Radio Times

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