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John Galsworthy - The Forsyte Saga

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The Forsytes

Dramatisation of John Galsworthy's epic novels of love, money and betrayal.

Dramatisation of John Galsworthy's epic novels of love, money and betrayal in the lives of a wealthy London family.

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The Forsyte Saga: The Forsytes

Joseph Millson

Juliet Aubrey

Jessica Raine

Brian Protheroe

Rebecca Hamilton

Ewan Bailey

Gerard McDermott

Susan Jameson

Sean Baker

John Galsworthy

Shaun McKenna

Marion Nancarrow

John Galsworthy - The Forsyte Saga: The Forsytes: Episode 2

Drama: Classic & Period

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Soames Forsyte prepares to face his wife's lover in court.

As Soames Forsyte prepares to face his wife's lover in court, an unidentified body lies in the city morgue. With Joseph Millson.

John Galsworthy's epic novels of sex, money and power in an upper class family.
Dramatised for radio by Shaun McKenna

As Soames Forsyte prepares to face his wife's lover in court, an unidentified body lies in the city morgue.

Original music composed by Neil Brand

Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins

Over the next 2 years, BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting a new dramatisation of all 9 books in John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga. An epic tale of sex, money and power in the lives of an upper middle-class family in London, it spans 50 years from 1886 to 1936. 

Today's play concludes the first novel "The Man of Property". It's the day after Irene Forsyte's lover, the architect, Philip Bosinney, was struck down in the fog by a hansom cab. Irene waits in his lodgings for his return. 

The story continues every day this week in the 15 Minute Drama slot and concludes in the Saturday Drama at 1430.

Award-winning writers Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan are dramatising the complete novels and Interludes and have taken a new approach to the books - delving deeper behind the Edwardian façade to bring more of Galsworthy's wonderful insight, wit and observation from the page. Although focussed on the period in which they were written - in the first 20 years of the 20th century - the novels feel remarkably contemporary and have much to reveal of our own world and inner lives.

Jessica Raine (Call the Midwife, Jericho) takes a central role as narrator, with Juliet Aubrey playing Irene and Joseph Millson, Soames. Later in the series they are joined by Jonathan Bailey, Max Bennett and Ben Lambert.

The Producers are Marion Nancarrow and Gemma Jenkins.

John Galsworthy - The Forsyte Saga: The Forsytes

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Dramatisation of John Galsworthy's epic novel series that spans 50 years

Dramatisation of John Galsworthy's epic novel series that spans 50 years and chronicles the lives of an upper middle class family in London

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