The Courtship of Mr Lyon by Angela Carter
Abridged and produced by Justine Willett
Read by Deborah Findlay
Broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Friday 4 December 2009 - Twenty Minutes
160/44; 23.4 MB; sound quality excellent
Retelling of the classic fairytale Beauty and the Beast.
When an impoverished father steals a single white rose from the garden of a snow-covered mansion one winter's night, he is forced into a strange bargain with the extraordinary leonine owner of the house.
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Jane Anderson, Radio Times reviewer: The female characters in Angela Carter's modern rendering of fairy stories often find themselves in terrible danger but she never portrays them as victims. Here, Beauty is an adolescent who knows her attractiveness has a power far greater than that of the huge leonine Beast. And when she looks into his agate eyes it is to gaze at her own reflection. "Her face was acquiring, instead of beauty, a lacquer of invincible prettiness." Only the likely death of the Beast can crack that lacquer...
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Many thanks for the Angela Carter. Love her work.
Cheers, katy