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Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea: Episode 10

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

Episode 10

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea, Episode 10

Distressed Antoinette must come to terms with her future. Jane Eyre prequel.

Distressed Antoinette must come to terms with her future. Prequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre concluded by Adjoa Andoh.

Rochester has shut his 'mad' wife, Creole heiress Antoinette, in the attic of his English home. 

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

Conlcuded 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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