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Brideshead Revisited (Radio Collection) [Audiobook] (Audio CD)

by Evelyn Waugh (Author)
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  • Audio CD
  • Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd (11 Sep 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0563529431
  • ISBN-13: 978-0563529439
  • Product Dimensions: 14.2 x 12 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 197,909 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This is a full-cast dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's classic story of a lost golden age. In 1944 Captain Charles Ryder travels with a company of soldiers to Brideshead. He has been there before, and the great house serves as a potent reminder of the decadent, stylish lifestyle now destroyed by the austerity of the Second World War. Charles' mind travels back twenty years to when he was a student at Oxford, in thrall to the captivating, tragic Sebastian Flyte. This friendship leads to his involvement with Sebastian's aristocratic Catholic family - in particular Julia, the eldest Flyte daughter - and has far-reaching effects on his life. Ben Miles stars as Charles Ryder with Jamie Bamber as Sebastianin this full-cast dramatisation, which also features Eleanor Bron and Edward Petherbridge. "Brideshead Revisited" is now a major motion picture starring Emma Thompson and Michael Gambon.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Superbly produced radio play and great coverage of the book, 30 April 2009
Having been accustomed to the original TV series for a number of years, it was with some reservation that I approached this radio production. I need not have worried.

The production is outstanding throughout, the acting superlative and there is no loss of the emotional strans contained in the book and conducted in the TV series. Infact, my view is that the radio play wins through a higher emotional plane that is not possible with the TV series. As a listener, you are instantly taken back to the golden time of the 1920s / 1930s without the scene setting that is all too required with a TV series. As a listener, you are given excellent signposts and your mind's eye is allowed freedom.

The key characters namely Charles Ryder and Sebastian Flyte are paramount lifted straight from the book, and for me the awkward transition from War Years back to the earliest of Oxford meetings works really well (Et in Arcadia Ego). There is time for the characters to develop whereas other adaptations are less generous, and in particular I am pleased that the locations are held in place, i.e. Oxford, Brideshead situated in the Cotswolds, Venice and London. I must make reference to Charles Ryder's childhood home and father. This was, in my opinion, underplayed in previous adaptations but in the radio play it is beautiful brought out in both verbal memoir description and by the 'sound-effects' side of this production. May I also point out that Hooper, in the opening scenes and closing scenes, is brilliently brought into correct origin as being from the West Midlands / Black Country whereas the TV series neglects this. It is the attention to detail that is the quality in this radio production.

Because of the strong start, the production wastes no time on incidentals but indeed focuses new aspects of inter-relationships not previously explored - i.e. Charles Ryder's first group of Oxford pals and the extent of how they are subsituted for the more outrageously arranged grouping under Sebastian's influence and countered by Anthony Blanche. The 'Plover's Eggs' scene is really important in the book and although is visually played out in the TV series with glancing looks and seemingly overplayed homosexual tones, the radio play gives a more balanced approach to the venom of Anthony Blanche and what follows on at the 'Thame' dinner and later in Europe.

I have but selected a few points. The sea voyage in the centre and the death of Lord Marchmain are severe echos of classed society and conduct within realms of contradiction and again, it is all evenly weighted here in this production.

I can thoroughly recommend this radio play production. I believe Evelyn Waugh would have been pleased and delighted by the production and its continued homage of the original linage in the book.
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