It's 1584. A stay in a mysterious chateau impacts on the life of young Emily St Aubert.

Starring Deborah Berlin and Robert Glenister.

Ann Radcliffe's fourth novel 'The Mysteries of Udolpho' was published 1794.

It follows the fortunes of Emily St Aubert who has to endure the death of her father, supernatural terrors in a gloomy castle and the machinations of an Italian brigand. This quintessential Gothic novel, along with Radcliffe's 'The Romance of the Forest' plays a prominent role in Jane Austen's 'Northanger Abbey'.

Dramatised in two parts by Catherine Czerkawska.

Emily …. Deborah Berlin
St Aubert …. Ioan Meredith
Valancourt …. Robert Glenister
Madame Cheron …. Tina Gray
Montoni …. Keith Drinkel
Michael/Cavigni …. Christopher Scott.
Annette …. Rachel Atkins.

With:

Ann Beach
Shirley Dixon
Stephen Thorne

Director: David Blount

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4in October 1996. Show less