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Radio 4,09 Nov 2025,57 mins

SeriesNorthanger Abbey

Part 2

Drama on 4

Available for over a year

by Jane Austen dramatised by Clara Glynn Austen's early novel is a coming-of-age narrative and a satire on the 1790s vogue for sensationalist Gothic fiction. Broadcast to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen. Part Two Having spent some weeks in Bath, Catherine has received an invitation from the Tilneys to stay at their home, Northanger Abbey. In the halls and corridors of this ancient building and fuelled by her love of the Gothic novel, Catherine's imagination runs riot. Catherine Morland ..... Madeleine Gray Henry TIlney ..... Will Howard Eleanor Tilney ..... Scarlett Courtney General Tilney ..... John Heffernan Isabella Thorpe ..... Cecilia Appiah Mrs Morland ..... Jasmine Hyde James Morland/Captain Tilney ..... Django Bevan Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane Sound by Keith Graham and Sam Dickinson Production Coordinator - Bethany Woodhead

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