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Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea: Episode 4

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

Episode 4

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

Fresh from England, Rochester weds Creole heiress Antoinette and takes her to Dominica.

Fresh from England, Rochester weds Creole heiress Antoinette and takes her to Dominica. Read by Adam Godley.

Rochester, newly arrived from England, marries Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway and they escape to an estate in Dominica.

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

Read by Adjoa Andoh. 

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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