bookshelves: summer-2010, play-dramatisation, published-1945, families, britain-england, suicide, lifestyles-deathstyles
Recommended for: Radio 4 listeners
Read from May 30 to 31, 2010
** spoiler alert ** Blurb - The Birlings are celebrating the engagement of their daughter Sheila when a police Inspector calls. Each member of the family is questioned about their relationship with a young woman, Eva Smith. And they each have to face up to their role in her tragic story.
Inspector Goole ..... Toby Jones
Arthur Birling.......David Calder
Sibyl Birling......Frances Barber
Sheila Birling ...... Morvern Christie
Eric Birling ...... Sam Alexander
Gerald Croft ......Geoffrey Streatfeild
Edna......... Vineeta Rishi
Category:
Drama
A moralistic tale, almost Dickensian in its social tragedy.