The Mysteries of Udolpho

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Ann Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho: Episode 1

Ann Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Ann Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho, Episode 1

It's 1584, and a stay in a mysterious chateau impacts on young Emily St Aubert's life.

It's 1584, and a stay in a mysterious chateau impacts on young Emily St Aubert's life. Stars Deborah Berlin and Robert Glenister.

It's 1584. A stay in a mysterious chateau impacts on the life of young Emily St Aubert. 

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 in two parts by Catherine Czerkawska. 

Emily …. Deborah Berlin
St Aubert …. Ioan Meredith
Valancourt …. Robert Glenister
Madame Cheron …. Tina Gray
Montoni …. Keith Drinkel
Michael/Cavigni …. Christopher Scott.
Annette …. Rachel Atkins.

With:  

Ann Beach
Shirley Dixon
Stephen Thorne

Director: David Blount

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4in October 1996.

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Young Emily St Aubert endures supernatural terrors in a gloomy castle.

Published in 1794, Ann Radcliffe's fourth novel sees young Emily St Aubert enduring supernatural terrors in a gloomy castle. Dramatised by Catherine Czerkawska, stars Deborah Berli

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