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 Ай 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!

@babs675 Ай бұрын

Excellent. Great story. Thank you for downloading ❤

@VickersDoorter Ай бұрын

A breath of fresh air - no characterless AI readers!

@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.

@jenford7078 Ай бұрын

This was so good! What wonderful voices!

@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.

@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.. 😆

@dawnwernette9174 Ай бұрын

Really like this narrator!

@elizabethgrainger4861 Ай бұрын

Excellent

@hectorbrown656 Ай бұрын

Thank you.

@jenniferhill6443 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

@feral-dartmoors-naturally Ай бұрын

Fabulous! Thanķ you!

@hollygoodson6025 Ай бұрын

This was brilliant thank you!

@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 🤔

@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 Ай бұрын

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

@Rosie-tv3ki 28 күн бұрын

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

@westhamunited67 Ай бұрын

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

@Wendyj55 Ай бұрын

Enjoyed the listen. Thanks.

@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! 👍

@sueoatley8541 Ай бұрын

I loved this story, Thank you ❤

@Mounhas Ай бұрын

Great story, keep them coming, cheers!

@angelakoblitz503 Ай бұрын

I really enjoyed this audio play.

@mubaraksodha 22 күн бұрын

Superb ❤. Thanks for sharing. Much better than binge-watching.

@annabee4497 Ай бұрын

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

@angel22893 Ай 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.

@pamelamyers9613 6 күн бұрын

Thank you!

@jeremypearson6852 Ай бұрын

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

@wondershaw3356 Ай бұрын

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

@Yoda-wu8is Ай бұрын

Hawthorne maintains the macabre brilliantly

@redstrat1234 15 күн бұрын

I enjoyed it.

@deborahrobertson8606 Ай бұрын

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

@welshgruff Ай бұрын

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

@dianapeek6936 Ай бұрын

How did the wife manage financially I wonder?

@lucikate10 Ай бұрын

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

@bestcrossroad Ай бұрын

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

@franzelias5368 Ай бұрын

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

@veronicaan2093 Ай бұрын

Brilliant thank you you ❤

@beckygleasman408 Ай бұрын

A curious story

@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)

@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)

@AtticusJJ67 Ай 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.

@shicruisin7004 Ай бұрын

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

@martinadarcy781 Ай бұрын

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@stevehammett2008 Ай 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 Ай 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 Ай 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.

@malcolmcraven4906 Ай бұрын

👍👍

@Tinatime532 Ай 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 😊

@deniseroper9030 Ай бұрын

I'm enjoying this but advertising every few minutes really spoils it

@dianapeek6936 Ай бұрын

I have no advertising at all, strange that, don't know why though.

@ralfhoffmann2487 Ай бұрын

I enjoyed this quirky story until the ending which was a big let down. It was like the last page of a book was missing.

@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.

@greatestytcommentator Ай бұрын

Shudder...

@AndroidAmI 20 күн бұрын

Had hoped for a happy ending. Can’t decide if it was or not.

@Smeegheed1963 Ай бұрын

Hilarious that Mrs.Wakefield calls her husband Wakefield😂

@dianapeek6936 Ай 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 Ай 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 😊

@hectorbrown656 Ай бұрын

The story was quite good, but the ending was ridiculous .

@greatestytcommentator Ай бұрын

It could be a true story !

@Liz-rw9qw Ай бұрын

It was a cautionary tale as a warning to married people (mostly men) to show the outcome of acting out of vanity and boredom.

@dianapeek6936 Ай бұрын

No it wasn't, it was the perfect ending, think hard about it.