The Bridge of San Luis Rey

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Thornton Wilder - The Bridge of San Luis Rey

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Peru’s finest bridge collapses killing five people. Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

Peru’s finest bridge collapses killing five people. Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Stars Annette Badland and Robert Glenister.

"Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan."

The finest bridge in all Peru collapses and five people plunge to their deaths. 

An eyewitness sets himself the task of explaining why it was the fate of those five to die...

Starring Annette Badland.  

Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Thornton Wilder - first published in 1927.  

Dramatised by Judith Adams.

Madre Maria del Pilar ... Annette Badland
Uncle Pio ... Michael Feast
Jaime ... Frederick Forge
Brother Juniper / Captain Alvarado ... Robert Glenister
Esteban / Manuel ... Tom Goodman-Hill
Pepita / Dona Clara ... Jasmine Hyde
Camila, la Perichole.... Helen McCrory
Marquesa de Montemayor ... Sian Phillips

Director: Gaynor MacFarlane. 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2002.

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