![]() ![]() The elder, Marian is fun but frumpy while the younger, Laura, bears a startling resemblance to – the Woman In White. Walter Hartright has taken up a new job in Cumberland, teaching two well-born young ladies to draw. However, his life is turned completely upside down when he encounters the Woman In White, wandering forlornly on a deserted midnight street… Walter Hartright, a drawing instructor, is down on his luck and looking for a change. “The Woman In White” has lost none of its power to shock, startle and entertain after almost 150 years. The meeting unleashes a chain of startling events that encompasses espionage, fraud, conflagration, body-swapping, drugs, forgery and murder – quite a heady cocktail of vices for its mid-Victorian audience.ĭescribed as the first detective novel in the English language, the book was a best-seller from the moment of its publication in 1860 – a popularity which continues to the present day in the form of the recent Andrew Lloyd Webber musical adaptation which opened in London with Michael Crawford taking the role of the corpulent villain, Count Fosco. ![]() ![]() The life of art teacher Walter Hartright changes forever following his midnight encounter with the spectral ‘Woman In White’ on a lonely moonlit road. ![]() Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in 2005/6ĭougray Scott reads Wilkie Collins’ celebrated novel “The Woman In White”, in this abridged eight part version originally broadcast by BBC Radio 2. ![]()
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