Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark

Posted by Riklaa on September 6, 2009 at 4:38pm

Aiding and Abetting by Muriel Spark [2000] Adapted in 10 parts by Penny Leicester Read by Fiona Shaw Produced by Duncan Minshull Broadcast 4 to 15 September 2000 (Book At Bedtime) (this version from the discontinued BBC Radio Collection release) The seventh Earl of Lucan disappeared on November 7, 1974, leaving behind the battered body of his children's nanny and his badly wounded wife. The speculation about his whereabouts has never quite died out. In Spark's fantasia on the theme of identity, set 26 years after the crime, an Englishman in his 60s walks into the Paris practice of famed Bavarian psychiatrist Dr Hildegard Wolf and announces that he is the missing Lord Lucan. Yet Hildegrad is already treating one self-confessed Lord Lucan. When one of the men threatens her with blackmail over her own murky past, she flees to London. Part 1 Also included - a short interview with Muriel Spark. 128/44; 133 MB

Muriel Spark - Aiding and Abetting - Muriel Spark interview.mp3

Muriel Spark - Aiding and Abetting pt1of2.mp3

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