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Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse (Omnibus)

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.

1 hour, 10 minutes

Last on

Mon 22 Apr 202403:50

Broadcasts

  • Sat 16 Aug 201412:00
  • Sun 17 Aug 201402:00
  • Sat 27 Jan 201813:00
  • Sun 28 Jan 201801:00
  • Sun 10 Jul 202207:20
  • Sun 21 Apr 202408:50
  • Sun 21 Apr 202413:50
  • Sun 21 Apr 202419:50
  • Mon 22 Apr 202403:50