Women Writers
With Peggy Reynolds.
3: The Brontes. When Charlotte,
Emily, Bramwell and Anne Bronte were children, they made up stories and wrote them down in miniature books. The plan was that they would all become famous, writing fiction as romantic as that of their favourite novelist, Sir Walter Scott. It did not quite work out like that for Bramwell, but it did for the sisters. Music includes:
Berlioz Overture: Rob Roy Royal
Scottish NO, conductor Neeme Jarvi Herrmann Wuthering Heights (excerpt) Pro Arte Orchestra, conducted by the Composer
Korngold The Death of Emily Bronte NPO, conductor Charles Gerhardt
Trad Scottish, arr George Fox Bonny Wee Thing Sydney McEwan (tenor), Gerald Moore (piano)
Emily Bronte 's Wuthering Heights is broadcast on Friday on Radio 2 at 9.15pm