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Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea: Episode 1

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Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea, Episode 1

Tensions escalate among the former slaves on a Caribbean island.

Tensions escalate among the former slaves on a Caribbean island. Prequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, read by Adjoa Andoh.

Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway grows up on a beguiling Caribbean island where tensions escalate between her family and former slaves. 

Jean Rhys's most famous novel tracing the early life of the first Mrs Rochester from Jane Eyre.

Read by Adjoa Andoh and Adam Godley.  

Abridged by Margaret Busby

Producer: Claire Grove 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2004.

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Adjoa Andoh reads Jean Rhys's prequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.

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