Author:E Nesbit,Full Cast,Victoria Carling,Daniel Ison,Kate McEnery,Timothy Bateson,Paul Copley
Paul Copley and Timothy Bateson star in a BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation of E. Nesbit's enchanting and unforgettable classic. Roberta, Peter and Phyllis lead an ordinary suburban life with Mother and Father, enjoying trips to the zoo and the pantomime. But when Father is mysteriously taken away one night, everything changes. The children must move to the country, to a little white cottage near the railway line, where eventually they find that there are plenty of adventures to be had and friends to be made - including Perks the Porter and the Station Master himself. But the mystery remains - what has happened to Father, and will he come back? The story of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis and their life in the country has never been out of print since it was first published in 1906. Charming, sentimental and unforgettable, the novel retains all its enchantment and enduring appeal in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation.
The great master who knew everything...an unspeakable source of delight
—— Charles DickensEvery age has reinvented the Bard in its own image. Renaissance Man or post-modern angst... Shakespeare haunts our language
—— IndependentShakespeare was the most consummate genius of all time
—— Peter AckroydDante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them, there is no third
—— T.S. EliotEvery single character in Shakespeare is as much an Individual as those in Life itself
—— Alexander PopeShakespeare is the best thing that ever happened to this country
—— Roy HattersleyShakespeare modernised the form of the sonnet, and transformed it from a stylised, courtly love shtick to a fluent and flexible form that could turn itself to any subject
—— Don Paterson , Guardian