• Emma

  • A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
  • By: Jane Austen
  • Narrated by: full cast
  • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (85 ratings)

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Emma

By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: full cast
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Publisher's summary

BBC Audio presents Emma, Jane Austen's engaging and infuriating tale. Austen famously challenged her readers with 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', yet this dramatisation brings Emma to life with romantic meddling, social climbing and perfect happiness.

Emma Woodhouse is equal parts witty, spoilt and vain, and sets her mind on matchmaking. She coaches her long suffering friend Harriet through social interactions and proposals, with disastrous consequences. Can Emma fix her flaws in time to mend her relationships?

Starring Angharad Rees.

©1996, 2001 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)1996, 2001 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

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    5 out of 5 stars

another great bbc dramatisation

although emma is not my favorite austen novel, this adapation was very entertaining. i actually own this on cassettes which i purchased years ago. i enjoyed it so much i wanted it on my mp3 player to listened to at any time. if only bbc would adapt pride & prejudice into a radio dramatisation i would be in heaven.

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Uncertain as to the quality of sound in dialogue

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The story is fine, as Jane Austen novels are. The various dialogues though, seem to lack a certain something, in the way that they are delivered. There is an absence of “energy” or “spark” in the voice acting. Sort of like, everyone’s a little uninterested in the whole affair. It confuses me, because a part of me thinks they are all fine actors here. To each his own, I suppose. Might agree with you. A bit of a miss for me.

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