1. Earnshaw

Emily Bronte's iconic love story. Her only novel is unforgettable, full of passion and darkness. Thrilling but haunting until the very end, uniquely bound to its setting on the bleak Yorkshire moors.

Nelly Dean is the voice of normality and reason in a world of chaos, darkness and intense passion. Heathcliff and Cathy's love is the beating heart of the story, and even after Cathy's death we hear her chilling and ghostly voice.

An intensely powerful and haunting soundscape weaves around the action as the two grow from children to adults and we witness the brutal actions that lead to Heathcliff's own cruelty. Cruelty that shatters the lives of all those around him.

But even through Heathcliff's destruction there is a redemptive ending filled with such mystery and lyricism it works like a spell.

Starring Ben Batt and Chloe Pirrie.

Dramatised in ten parts by award-winning writer Rachel Joyce.

Heathcliff ...... Ben Batt
Cathy ...... Chloe Pirrie
Nelly ...... Emma Fielding
Mr Earnshaw ...... Clive Hayward
Hindley ...... Luke Bailey
Joseph ...... Philip Bretherton
Frances ...... Lauren Cornelius
Young Cathy ...... Rosie Boore
Young Heathcliff ...... Reuben Bainbridge
Edgar Linton ...... Ryan Whittle
Isabella Linton ...... Kerry Gooderson
Young Hareton ...... Ruben Cryer
Priest ...... Ryan Early

Director: Tracey Neale

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2018.