Author:Bram Stoker,Tom Hiddleston,David Suchet
Tom Hiddleston (The Night Manager) stars as Jonathan Harker with David Suchet (Poirot) as Dracula in Liz Lochhead and John Foley's powerful BBC radio adaptation of the classic novel by Bram Stoker.
When solicitor Jonathan Harker sets off for Transylvania to sell the mysterious Count Dracula a Gothic mansion, his bride-to-be Mina begs him to stay – to no avail.
But on arrival at Dracula's castle, deep in a black forest surrounded by wolves, Harker wishes he had listened to his fiancée. The Count is welcoming but unnerving, and his castle oppressive. Plagued by nightmares, Harker soon longs to leave...
Back in Whitby, Mina is increasingly worried. She has heard nothing from Jonathan, and now her sister Lucy – newly engaged to Harker's friend, Dr Seward – is becoming pale and thin. In Seward's lunatic asylum in London, a madman named Renfield babbles about his master who is coming. And as a midnight storm rages, a black ship heads towards the English coast...
Acclaimed poet and playwright Liz Lochhead's adaptation was first performed on stage in 1985, and this thrilling radio drama was broadcast on the World Service in 2006. Suspenseful, chilling and suffused with dark eroticism, it retains all the eerie dread of Stoker's infamous horror novel. Duration: 2 hrs approx.
Roth's best novel yet
—— London Review of BooksI had only to read the two opening sentences to realize that I was once again in the hands of a superbly endowed storyteller
—— New York Review of BooksFurther evidence that Roth can do practically anything with fiction. His narrative power - the ability to delight the reader simultaneously with the telling and the tale - is superb
—— Washington PostHis prose is immaculate yet curiously plain and unostentatious, as natural as brething
—— Al AlvarezOne would have to look very hard to find a wryer, more lovingly detailed account of intellectual and sexual innocence abroad
—— Jay Parini , New York TimesAn alert, witty, unpredictable novel which brings a sharp fresh eye to bear on English character and English compromises
—— ObserverMetroland is a delicious book, sharp and witty and observant
—— The ListenerOne of the best accounts of clever English schoolboyhood I've read
—— Times Educational SupplementFlighty, playful… Barnes succeeds in vividly recreating teenage precociousness, particularly what it feels like to be a young male encountering love and sex
—— Los Angeles TimesA dazzling entertainer
—— New YorkerConsummately elegant
—— Sunday TimesHe writes perceptively about the shift from self-absorbed teenager to adult.
—— The TimesIf all works of fiction were as thoughtful, as subtle, as well constructed and as funny as Metroland there would be no more talk of the death of the novel
—— New StatesmanIt's one of the best accounts of clever English schoolboyhood I've read
—— Times Educational SupplementIrony and imagery are deployed with a finesse even Flaubert wouldn't wince at...consummately elegant
—— Sunday Times
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