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Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse

4. Abandoned House

Duration: 15 minutes

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

Available for 2 months

With the First World War comes heartbreaking loss.

Ten years pass and the Ramsays' house on the Isle of Skye remains empty and Mrs McNab the housekeeper tries in vain to keep it from falling into a state of disrepair.

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

Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths.

Lily ...... Lyndsey Marshal
Mrs McNab ...... Alexandra Mathie

Director: Nadia Molinari

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

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