Imogen Stubbs
Author
Series
Rainbow volume 2
Language
English
Description
Summer 1900 to 1902: Anton Skrebensky has left for South Africa and the Boer War. Ursula, nearing the end of her schooldays, forms a close attachment with her teacher, Winifred Inger.
Author
Series
Rainbow volume 1
Language
English
Description
1899: Ursula Brangwen, a schoolgirl of 16, lives with her family in the village of Cossethay in the Erewash Valley. Nearby lies Marsh Farm, the Brangwens' ancestral home and source of so many family memories. Haunted by these and the ghosts of her grandparents, Ursula's adolescent awareness grows as she is strongly drawn to the son of a family friend, army cadet Anton Skrebensky.
Author
Series
Rainbow volume 3
Language
English
Description
Spring to autumn, 1904. The Brangwens have moved from the country to Beldover, a mining town. Ursula is at college. The Boer War is over. Ursula gets a letter from Anton, and the final stage of her youthful journey begins.
4) The Rainbow
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of DH Lawrence’s novel, telling of the passions and fortunes of a Midlands farming family at the turn of the century. Ursula Brangwen, nearing the end of her schooldays, is strongly attracted to the son of a family friend. When he leaves to fight in the Boer War, Ursula forms a close attachment with her teacher, Winifred Inger.
5) Broken light
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Bernie Moon's ambitions and dreams have been forgotten by everyone else - including Bernie herself. At 19 she was full of promise, but now facing 50 and going through the menopause, she's a fading light. Until the murder of a woman in a local park unlocks a series of childhood memories, and with them, a talent that she has hidden all her adult life. What happens when the frustrations and power of an older woman are finally given their chance to be...
6) Buk
Author
Language
English
Description
Nancy's mother is having a baby and it is making her ill; Nancy's father is angry with her mother because they can't afford the baby; Nancy is angry with everyone. Then she starts to see things... things that should only happen in fairytales. Is Buk a sign she is going mad or is he there to save her?
Author
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed British theatre director Trevor Nunn helms a rare film project, delivering a rousing and charming version of Shakespeare's mistaken-identity comedy, Twelfth Night. Now set in the 19th Century, the story follows the daring adventure of Viola as she disguises herself as a man to work as a Page in the court of Count Orsino, a man whom she desperately loves. Of course Orsino sees Viola as a man, as does his lady love Olivia who is quickly attracted...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
At convent school, a girl acquires romantic notions of a lover who will live for her alone. She marries a kind but dull country doctor and discovers that "This life of hers was as cold as an attic that looks north; and boredom, quiet as the spider, was spinning its web in the shadowy places of her heart." Emma Bovary's quest for escape from the emptiness of her bourgeois existence leads to infidelity and financial extravagance, and Gustave Flaubert's...
10) True Colors
Author
Language
English
Description
While Tim dreamed of working in the Justice Department, Peter aspired to be a high-powered political player - at any cost.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
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Publisher
BBC Audio
Language
English
Description
A BBC Radio six-part dramatisation of Marcel Proust's groundbreaking series of novels, tracing the extraordinary story of the author's own life. Starring James Wilby and Jonathan Firth, and with a distinguished cast including Harriet Walter, Imogen Stubbs and Corin Redgrave, this rich, multi-layered adaptation brings out all the variety and subtlety of Proust's magnificent masterpiece. Featuring a fictional version of himself - 'Marcel' - and a host...
