Anne Tyler: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years & The Amateur Marriage: Three BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations Audiobook

Author:

Anne Tyler

Narrator:

Lorelei King, Barbara Barnes, Nathan Osgood, Nancy Crane, Julianna Jennings, Tom Forrister

Publisher:

BBC Worldwide Ltd

Date:

2018-08-02

Genres:

Coming of Age, Contemporary, Family Life, Fiction & Literature, Romance

Duration:

6 h 49 min

Summary:

Fascinating BBC radio adaptations of three of Anne Tyler’s bestselling books

Award-winning author Anne Tyler is normally loved worldwide on her behalf fiction exploring the intricacies of relationship and domesticity. These three acclaimed books, each occur Baltimore, describe the small triumphs and tragedies of everyday American family members life, as associations are created and broken, and families get together, drift apart, harm and heal each other.

Dinner at the Homesick Cafe (Monitors 1 and 2)

Forgotten by about Anne Tyler: Dinner on the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years & The Amateur Marriage: 3 BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations her salesman husband, Pearl Tull attempts to maintain her family together – but her anger and fierce maternal energy provides damaging effects on her behalf three children.

Ladder of Years (Paths 3 and 4)

An unexpected intimate encounter in the grocery aisle may be the beginning of a new adventure for homely Delia Grinstead, leading her to make a sudden, impulsive modification in her lifestyle.

The Amateur Relationship (Paths 5 and 6)

We follow the turbulent romantic relationship of Michael and Pauline Anton more than sixty years, using their whirlwind love in 1941, to marriage, parenthood and beyond.

Multi-layered and common, with information that ring sharply accurate and characters that are both recognisable and entertaining, these 3 dramatisations feature a distinguished cast including Barbara Barnes, Lorelei King and Nathan Osgood.

Dramatised by Rebecca Lenkiewicz

Produced and aimed by David Hunter

Dinner on the Homesick Restaurant

Pearl…Barbara Barnes

Narrator…Lorelei King

Beck…Nathan Osgood

Young Cody…Max Baldry

Youthful Ezra…Richard Linnell

Youthful Jenny/Jane…Eloise Webb

Cody…Ben Crowe

Ezra…Simon Lee Phillips

Jenny…Fenella Woolgar