WAKEFIELD BBC Radio play drama by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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@denbighlad70 Ай бұрын

The comments so far, are as I predicted. Some love this play others hate it. Only goes to show you can't please ALL of the people ALL of the time. Maybe the next one will be more your cup of tea...

@andyc3943 Ай бұрын

Thank you for uploading! Listening from Denbighshire!

@greatestytcommentator Ай бұрын

When was this recorded please?

@denbighlad70 Ай бұрын

@@greatestytcommentator 2001

@TedaR Ай бұрын

I ❤the full cast productions. Ty from a longtime attendee of the theater of the mind! Listening near Nashville. Cheers yall! 😉😃

@imlistening1137 29 күн бұрын

And that’s exactly why you shouldn’t try to please everyone! We can all skip to the next story if we wish! I happened to love it and will be thinking of how the story ends through weeks of alternate endings! Delightful!

@Rosie-tv3ki 4 күн бұрын

Great story, it’s a shame some people can’t use their imagination listening to this story. I loved it thank you ❤

@babs675 Ай бұрын

Excellent. Great story. Thank you for downloading ❤

@Angela-cc1hd Ай бұрын

Very good, excellent narration,Wakefield a perfect example of the Height of Stupidity😮 l would have liked the story to continue though 🤔

@sueoatley8541 8 күн бұрын

I loved this story, Thank you ❤

@dawnwernette9174 Ай бұрын

Really like this narrator!

@jenford7078 Ай бұрын

This was so good! What wonderful voices!

@Wendyj55 Ай бұрын

Enjoyed the listen. Thanks.

@pimpozza Ай бұрын

A fascinating story from a bygone era, brilliantly adapted for radio! 👏 Everyone needs a neighbour like Mrs Brand.. 🤭 She actually had me laughing out loud with her banter.. *I absolutely loved this play..* Thank you so much for uploading! It brought back to mind the 2016 film of the same name and Wakefield speaks the very same words at the end.. 😆

@maryalice5357 Ай бұрын

Everything is classic. The story, the actors, the music , and the identification of all these. What a great presentation! Thank you. Have to get back to more Hawthorne.

@jenniferhill6443 Ай бұрын

Excellent!.

@feral-dartmoors-naturally Ай бұрын

Fabulous! Thanķ you!

@hollygoodson6025 Ай бұрын

This was brilliant thank you!

@elizabethgrainger4861 Ай бұрын

Excellent

@julietteshore1118 Ай бұрын

I wonder how many people have actually done this and not through madness. Great play ! Thank you 🙏

@callycatus Ай бұрын

I think there may be a few for whatever reasons .. great story but a sadness to it

@annabee4497 Ай бұрын

what a nasty piece of work Wakefield is! thank you for making it available. great acting.

@angel22893 14 күн бұрын

I really wanted to hear Mrs Wakefield tell him to get out, but of course she wouldn’t have been able to at that time.

@Mounhas Ай бұрын

Great story, keep them coming, cheers!

@Failte630 Ай бұрын

Thanks for uploading this. It is a great play for radio. Well narrated and acted. I was surprised by the ending. Didn't see that coming. Sign of a good playwright. Thank you.

@hectorbrown656 Ай бұрын

Thank you.

@roger2008100 Ай бұрын

Quite excellent. Wonderfully read and narrated. God only knows if this is first person or third person past or present tense. It's truly wonderful. Many many thanks for posting.

@VoltaireVI 22 күн бұрын

It's the third person and it's written in the present tense. Isn't that clear?

@angelakoblitz503 Ай бұрын

I really enjoyed this audio play.

@VickersDoorter Ай бұрын

A breath of fresh air - no characterless AI readers!

@westhamunited67 29 күн бұрын

Just seen the film version off this on prime, fantastic watch.

@ravenmax96 Ай бұрын

A movie was made remember watching it

@pimpozza Ай бұрын

Yes.. "Wakefield" is a 2016 movie based on the short story of the same name written in 2008 by E.L. Doctorow which was published in _The New Yorker.._ and which was in turn inspired by this story.. the original 1835 tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne! 👍

@jeremypearson6852 Ай бұрын

The saying “out of sight, out of mind” seems very applicable. An expat in Florida.

@bestcrossroad Ай бұрын

No words, started as funny somehow took a turn to the absurd. But, thanks for the upload.

@welshgruff Ай бұрын

If this was written by a woman Mrs W would have yelled "yippee!" and gone out on the town.

@dianapeek6936 6 күн бұрын

How did the wife manage financially I wonder?

@wondershaw3356 Ай бұрын

Brilliant human nature and how we are driven to extremes of behaviour ❤

@deborahrobertson8606 21 күн бұрын

Beautifully adapted and performed. A very insightful piece. Many thanks!

@Yoda-wu8is Ай бұрын

Hawthorne maintains the macabre brilliantly

@AtticusJJ67 23 күн бұрын

Wish there was a heads up when downloads are littered with ads. Had settled down in bed but had to keep opening my eyes to press 'skip'. Really took the enjoyment out of listening.

@munchkinheaven7877 Ай бұрын

What money was Mrs Wakefield living on?

@bertspeggly4428 Ай бұрын

I wondered that too.

@justtagurl Ай бұрын

Their savings seems like the most likely answer. The Wakefield's don't strike me as people who might have been big spenders.

@johnrothery3683 Ай бұрын

Did she work perhaps. Any savings would have long gone. Or perhaps it was on a doctors income. 😂 John Rothery 😎 (Tauranga)

@veronicaan2093 21 күн бұрын

Brilliant thank you you ❤

@Smeegheed1963 22 күн бұрын

Hilarious that Mrs.Wakefield calls her husband Wakefield😂

@dianapeek6936 6 күн бұрын

In those days, all was far more formal. She and her neighbour referred to each other as Mrs. Think of many of the characters in Dickens.

@Smeegheed1963 6 күн бұрын

@dianapeek6936 Yes you're right, it it just seemed amusing to hear it. Can I just say something about your windmill pic? The other night, I dreamed almost exactly that scene. It was so real that I told friends and tried to look up dream meanings of windmills. Last night I tried to draw the image from my dream so imagine my surprise that today I get an almost exactly similar picture of windmills in a youtube reply from someone I don't know! Synchronicity!! Thanks 😊

@glendacame5931 Ай бұрын

What began as a very unpleasant character became a very sad one. I don't support DV but kind of wished Mrs W had been there to throw something or that the Dr had moved in. Oh well.

@lucikate10 Ай бұрын

Overall I enjoyed the production but feel it was let down by weak ending.

@franzelias5368 Ай бұрын

The unemphatic Mr Wakefield who never speaks his mind and counsels his neighbour to do the same. Englishmen take note!

@Tinatime532 17 күн бұрын

Lol thanks for sharing… everyone has a choice to listen etc… I’m glad yer not letting negative comments get to you 😉🥳😎🏖. Off to see how it ends …. Life’s full of twists and turns…. Hang on tight and make the moments count…. 🎉. Have a great week all❤. From Devon UK 😊

@gillgallett4864 28 күн бұрын

It just made me so angry! Vile man. And what a terrible ending

@beckygleasman408 Ай бұрын

A curious story

@Tinyflypie 23 күн бұрын

The end infuriated me

@johnrothery3683 Ай бұрын

I wanted the doctor to answer. "Sweetheart a tramp has just walked in." Or perhaps her to say. "Darling, a strange man has just walked into the house." Or she just tells him to get knotted. Perhaps it's just me, but I don't like to be left up in the air at the end of a story. Good story nevertheless. John Rothery 😎 (Tauranga)

@shicruisin7004 27 күн бұрын

Well, that's stupid, now we'll never know what happened.

@martinadarcy781 Ай бұрын

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@stevehammett2008 20 күн бұрын

This story had a cop out ending. To my knowledge it is the first story of Nathaniel Hawthorne's that I have ever read (so to speak) I am thoroughly underwhelmed...

@cyzdot1918 17 күн бұрын

You might want to actually read a few (print versions). He was considered to be one of the greatest writers to come out of the 19th century. Oh, but that was before "Google" . 😶

@dianapeek6936 6 күн бұрын

I loved the ending, now I can choose my own, a bit like the film Sliding Doors. Life is just the same, you use your imagination every day to a greater or lesser extent, don't you.? November 2024, Cyprus.