Northanger Abbey

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Alison Belbin

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Miriam Margolyes

Sally Avens

Hattie Naylor

Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey: 1. The Season

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Jane Austen's satire on all things Gothic with Miriam Margolyes.

Entering society, Catherine imagines danger in every encounter with comic results. Gothic novel satire with Miriam Margolyes.

Catherine Morland is taken to Bath for the season and finds that in her fertile imagination, danger lurks round every corner.

First published in 1817, Jane Austen's satire pokes fun at the popular sensationalist fiction of the day.

Dramatised in ten parts by Hattie Naylor.

Catherine ...... Georgia Groome
Henry ...... Luke Thompson
Mrs Allen ...... Tracy Wiles
Mr Allen ...... Kim Wall
Isabella ...... Ainsley Howard
Mrs Morland ...... Alison Belbin
Mr Morland ...... John Bowler
Mrs Thorpe ...... Karen Bartke
The Book ...... Miriam Margolyes

Director:  Sally Avens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2016.

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Jane Austen's satire on the Gothic novel. Dramatised by Hattie Naylor.

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