To the Lighthouse (Omnibus)

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Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse (Omnibus)

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To the Lighthouse

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse (Omnibus)

Despite the weather forecast, young James is determined to reach the lighthouse off Skye.

1914:  Mr and Mrs Ramsay, their eight children and an array of guests are on the Isle of Skye for the summer.

Just before the First World War, Mr and Mrs Ramsay, their eight children and an array of guests are on the Isle of Skye for the summer.

Despite Mr Ramsay's prediction of bad weather, Young James is determined to get to the Lighthouse.

Virginia Woolf's landmark modernist novel based on her own early experiences  - first published 1927.

Intensely personal and profoundly universal; a moving portrait of family life that captures the transience of human experience.

Omnibus of five parts dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths

Lily ..... Lyndsey Marshal
Mrs Ramsay ..... Charlotte Emmerson
Mr Ramsay ..... John Lynch
James ..... Alex Starke
Mr Tansley ..... Matthew McNulty
Prue ..... Verity-May Henry   
Paul ..... Ben Lamb
Minta ..... Olivia Hallinan
Mr Bankes ..... Andonis Anthony
Cam ..... Talia Barnett
Mrs McNab ..... Alexandra Mathie
James (adult) ..... Henry McEntire

Director Nadia Molinari

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2014.

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