The Moonstone - BBC Radio Dramatisation - Wilkie Collins Audiobook

Written by Wilkie Collins
Read by Full Cast
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 160 Kbps
Dramatization

A large diamond given to Rachel Verinder on her 18th birthday vanishes.

Often described as the first and best English detective novel. “The Moonstone” takes its title from the name given to a mysterious diamond, stolen from the Hindus and turning up at the Verinder house on the wild Yorkshire coast in 1848.

In its new life, the moonstone is a present for Rachel on her 18th birthday, but is it destined to remain hers? Some trouble seems to accompany the Moonstone wherever it goes. When Mr Franklin brought it to Rachel in Yorkshire he was followed by three Brahmin priests dedicated to getting the diamond back - by any means.

The novel written by Wilkie Collins and first published in 1868, is dramatised in six parts by Brian Gear.

Gabriel Betteredge …… John Sharp
Franklin Blake …… John Telfer
Rachel Verinder …… Sally Baxter
Godfrey Ablewhite …… Geoffrey Beevers
Lady Verinder …… Petra Davies
Rosanna Spearman …… Tammy Ustinov
Penelope …… Josie Kidd
Mr Murthwaite …… Gordon Dulieu
Mr Candy …… Danny Schiller
Superintendent Seegrave …… Rex Holdsworth
Nancy …… Jo Scott Matthews
Duffy …… Debby Cumming
Yolland …… Tom Eastwood
Sergeant Cuff …… John Franklyn-Robbins
Samuel …… Matthew Adams
Felicity Ablewhite …… Lisa Penny
Georgia Ablewhite …… Deborah Jane Sharpe
Mr Bruff …… Nat Brenner
Miss Clack …… June Barrie
Lucy Yolland …… Liza Flanacan
Aunt Ablewhite …… Margot Boyd
Ablewhite …… Godfrey Kenton
Indian …… .Geoffrey Serle
Luker …… Adrian Egan
Jennings …… Philip Sully
Hopkins/Landlord …… Barkley Johnson
Woods …… Emlyn Harris
Boy …… Crispian Balmer

Music composed and conducted by Sidney Sager.

Directed at BBC Bristol by Brian Miller.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1979.

My encodes, sourced from BBC Sounds.