To the Lighthouse

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Lyndsey Marshal

Alexandra Mathie

Nadia Molinari

Linda Marshall Griffiths

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse: 4. Abandoned House

4. Abandoned House

Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse, 4. Abandoned House

Ten years pass and the Ramsays' house on the Isle of Skye remains empty and neglected.

Housekeeper Mrs McNab tries to stop the abandoned house from falling into disrepair. Stars Lyndsey Marshal and Alexandra Mathie.

With the First World War comes heartbreaking loss. 

Ten years pass and the Ramsays' house on the Isle of Skye remains empty and Mrs McNab the housekeeper tries in vain to keep it from falling into a state of disrepair. 
 
Virginia Woolf's landmark modernist 1927 novel based on her own early experiences.

Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths.

Lily ...... Lyndsey Marshal
Mrs McNab ...... Alexandra Mathie

Director: Nadia Molinari

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2014.

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Virginia Woolf's classic modernist novel, dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths.

Virginia Woolf's landmark modernist novel, based on her own early experiences and published in 1927, is dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths.

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