Can Emily escape the clutches of the evil Montoni and learn her father's secret?

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 by Catherine Czerkawska.

Emily …. Deborah Berlin
Valancourt …. Robert Glenister
Montoni …. Keith Drinkel
Madame Montoni …. Tina Gray
Annette …. Rachel Atkins.
Abbess …. Jill Graham
Sister Agnes …. Shirley Dixon
Dorothée …. Ann Beach

With:

Julian Parkin
Denys Hawthorne
Mark Bonnar
Chris Pavlo
Colleen Prendergast
Stephen Thorne

Director: David Blount

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