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Titus Groan (Gormenghast #1)
bookshelves: radio-4, published-1946, summer-2011, fantasy, gothic, kiddlewinks, play-dramatisation, classic
Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Brazilliant Laura
Recommended for: R4 listeners
Read from July 07 to August 01, 2011
Sunday Classic Serial - this is like Dickens on a high dose of something chemically recreational; fantastic stuff.
blurb - dramatised by Brian Sibley Episode One 'Titus Arrives' A baby is born: Titus Groan, heir to crumbling stone and ancient ritual, only son of Sepulchrave, the 76th Earl of Gormenghast. Whilst the castle flies into state of high excitement, change may at last come creeping through its empty halls, on the heels of a sly but ambitious kitchen boy named Steerpike.
Titus...Luke Treadaway
Artist...David Warner
Steerpike...Carl Prekopp
Sepulchrave, Earl Of Groan...Paul Rhys
Gertrude, Countess Of Groan...Miranda Richardson
Dr Prunesquallor ...James Fleet
Irma Prunesquallor...Tamsin Greig
Clarice ...Fenella Woolgar
Cora ...Claudie Blakley
Fuchsia ...Olivia Hallinan
Flay ...Adrian Scarborough
Abiatha Swelter ...Mark Benton
Sourdust...James Lailey
Nannie Slagg ...Jane Whittenshaw
Keda...Susie Riddell
With Simon Bubb, Jonathan Forbes, Peter Polycarpou, Alun Raglan, Alex Tregear Music by Roger Goula Directed by Gemma Jenkins Produced by Jeremy Mortimer.
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Watching the BBC TV series too:
Celia Imrie ... Lady Gertrude
Christopher Lee ... Flay
Warren Mitchell ... Barquentine
Neve McIntosh ... Lady Fuchsia
Jonathan Rhys Meyers ... Steerpike
John Sessions ... Dr. Prunesquallor
Fiona Shaw ... Irma Prunesquallor
June Brown ... Nannie Slagg
Lynsey Baxter ... Cora Groan
Zoë Wanamaker ... Clarice Groan
George Antoni ... Bookman
Sean Hughes ... Poet
Stephen Fry ... Professor Bellgrove
Richard Griffiths ... Swelter
Ian Richardson ... Lord Groan
Windsor Davies ... Rottcodd
Olga Sosnovska ... Keda
Eric Sykes ... Mollocks
blurb - dramatised by Brian Sibley Episode One 'Titus Arrives' A baby is born: Titus Groan, heir to crumbling stone and ancient ritual, only son of Sepulchrave, the 76th Earl of Gormenghast. Whilst the castle flies into state of high excitement, change may at last come creeping through its empty halls, on the heels of a sly but ambitious kitchen boy named Steerpike.
Titus...Luke Treadaway
Artist...David Warner
Steerpike...Carl Prekopp
Sepulchrave, Earl Of Groan...Paul Rhys
Gertrude, Countess Of Groan...Miranda Richardson
Dr Prunesquallor ...James Fleet
Irma Prunesquallor...Tamsin Greig
Clarice ...Fenella Woolgar
Cora ...Claudie Blakley
Fuchsia ...Olivia Hallinan
Flay ...Adrian Scarborough
Abiatha Swelter ...Mark Benton
Sourdust...James Lailey
Nannie Slagg ...Jane Whittenshaw
Keda...Susie Riddell
With Simon Bubb, Jonathan Forbes, Peter Polycarpou, Alun Raglan, Alex Tregear Music by Roger Goula Directed by Gemma Jenkins Produced by Jeremy Mortimer.
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Watching the BBC TV series too:
Celia Imrie ... Lady Gertrude
Christopher Lee ... Flay
Warren Mitchell ... Barquentine
Neve McIntosh ... Lady Fuchsia
Jonathan Rhys Meyers ... Steerpike
John Sessions ... Dr. Prunesquallor
Fiona Shaw ... Irma Prunesquallor
June Brown ... Nannie Slagg
Lynsey Baxter ... Cora Groan
Zoë Wanamaker ... Clarice Groan
George Antoni ... Bookman
Sean Hughes ... Poet
Stephen Fry ... Professor Bellgrove
Richard Griffiths ... Swelter
Ian Richardson ... Lord Groan
Windsor Davies ... Rottcodd
Olga Sosnovska ... Keda
Eric Sykes ... Mollocks
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