BBC Radio Audiobook -
BBC Radio Audiobook - The House On The Strand - SciFi Masterpiece by Daphne Du Maurier
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Continuing the Daphne Du Maurier Centenary season, Julian Wadham reads
this haunting tale of forty something Dick Young, whose life becomes
embedded in the past, to the cost of his present day existence and the
detriment of his family. 'The House on the Strand' is considered to be
Daphne Du Maurier's late masterpiece. This work was described by Du
Maurier as her favorite of all that she had produced. BBC 7 listeners
have a real treat in store in this UNABRIDGED 12 part reading directed
by Lawrence Jackson.
Twelve episodes of approx 30 minutes each in high quality MP3.
Summary:
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Dick Young has been lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Magnus Lane, a
professor of bio-physics. He has agreed, while he is there, to act as
guinea-pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered; and the small
bottles which hold it are waiting for him in the laboratory at Kilmarth.
With no idea of what the result will be, he takes the prescribed dose -
and without warning finds himself back in the fourteenth century, in
this same Cornish countryside. During the following days he takes
successive 'trips'. Each lasts only a short time, but always he is back
in the same surroundings. Invisible, inaudible, he finds that he is a
kind of alter ago of Roger Kylmerth, steward to Sir Henry Champernoune,
lord of the manor of Tywardreath. He witnesses intrigue, adultery,
murder, feeling himself personally involved.
Are the experiences hallucinatory, a subconscious escape from
dissatisfaction with his own marital life? Or has he really travelled
back in time? This is the question Dick asks himself.
More and more he grudges the hours spent away from these people of long
ago, resentful of the time that must be given to his loving though
suspicious wife and to his stepsons, intruders into his secret life.
With immense skill, the tension is kept on both levels, and, as Dick
grows ever more obsessed by his trips into the past, so the reader
begins to share his addiction, and to find that past and present become
inextricably, perilously mixed - until the final, stunning climax.
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Encoder : Lame 3.95- SciFi Masterpiece by Daphne Du Maurier
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