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Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse

3. Impatience

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for 4 months

The Ramsays are on holiday with their eight children and assorted guests in their summer house in the Hebrides.

The family host a dinner party but Paul and Minta are not back from the beach and Mr Ramsay finds it difficult to conceal his impatience.

Virginia Woolf's landmark modernist 1927 novel based on her own early experiences.

Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths.

Mr Ramsay ...... John Lynch
Mrs Ramsay ...... Charlotte Emmerson
Lily ...... Lyndsey Marshal
Mr Tansley ...... Matthew McNulty
Minta ...... Olivia Hallinan
Paul ...... Ben Lamb
Cam ......Talia Barnett
James ...... Alex Starke

Director: Nadia Molinari

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2014. Show less

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