Victorian Classic Novel - BBC Radio Audiobook
The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as
a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1880.
Isabel Archer, a young woman of intelligence, imagination and beauty,
travels from nineteenth-century America to England and across Europe
on a journey that encompasses not only continents, but the crossing
from innocence to experience. Miriam Margolyes brings a unique
vitality to this reading of Henry James. masterpiece.
The Portrait of a Lady was turned into a film in 1996 by New Zealand
director Jane Campion, starring Nicole Kidman as Isabel, John Malkovich
as Osmond, and Barbara Hershey as Madame Merle.
In 1968 the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) produced a television
mini-series version of The Portrait of a Lady, starring Suzanne Neve
as Isabel and Richard Chamberlain as Ralph Touchett.
This production was originally broadcast in twenty episodes over four
weeks on BBC Radio 4. This release is derived from the four weekly
'omnibus' broadcasts which contained five episodes each
Read by Miriam Margolyes - four parts of one hour each.
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