E. M. Forster: A BBC Radio Collection E.M. Forster

E. M. Forster: A BBC Radio Collection by E.M. Forster

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Dramatisations and readings of EM Forsters finest works, plus Stephen Wakelams radio play A Dose of Fame and the documentary feature Forster in India: Sex, Books and Empire One of the greatest English novelists of the 20th century, EM Forster was also an accomplished short story writer.

E. M. Forster: A BBC Radio Collection: Twelve dramatisations and readings including A Passage to India, A Room with a View and Howards End by E.M. Forster

Dramatisations and readings of EM Forsters finest works, plus Stephen Wakelams radio play A Dose of Fame and the documentary feature Forster in India: Sex, Books and Empire

One of the greatest English novelists of the 20th century, EM Forster was also an accomplished short story writer. This collection includes stunning adaptations of his classic novels A Passage to India, Where Angels Fear to Tread, A Room with a View and Howards End. Among the star casts are Penelope Wilton, Ellie Kendrick, Sian Thomas, Emilia Fox, Sheila Hancock and John Hurt.

Also featured are four of his short tales The Story of the Siren (read by Dan Stevens), The Road from Colonus (read by Andrew Sachs), The Obelisk (read by Ruth Wilson) and Ansell (read by Peter Kenny).

Forsters posthumous novel, Maurice, is dramatised with a full cast and stars Alex Wyndham and Bertie Carvel, while Stephen Wakelams drama A Dose of Fame, starring Stephen Campbell Moore as Forster, sees the author grappling with a mysterious death, his own sexuality and an idea for his next novel.

In addition, Zareer Masani presents a revealing Radio 3 profile exploring Forsters literature, love life and personal passage to India.

Edward Morgan Forster was born on January 1, 1879, in London and was raised from infancy by his mother and paternal aunts after his father's death. Forsters boyhood experiences at the Tonbridge School, Kent, were an unpleasant contrast to the happiness he found at home, and his suffering left him with an abiding dislike of the English public school system. At Kings College, Cambridge, however, he was able to pursue freely his varied interests in philosophy, literature, and Mediterranean civilization, and he soon determined to devote his life to writing.His first two novels,Where Angels Fear to Tread(1905) andThe Longest Journey(1907), were both poorly received, and it was not until the publication ofHowards End, in 1910, that Forster achieved his first major success as a novelist, with the work many considered his finest creation.Forster first visited India during 1912 and 1913, and after three years as a noncombatant in Alexandria, Egypt, during World War I and several years in England, he returned for an extended visit in 1921. From those experiences came his most celebrated novel,A Passage to India, his darkest and most probing work and perhaps the best novel about India written by a foreigner.As a man of letters, Forster was honored during and after World War II for his resistance to any and all forms of tyranny and totalitarianism, and Kings College awarded him a permanent fellowship in 1949. He spent his later years at Cambridge writing and teaching, and died in Coventry, England, on June 7, 1970. His novel,Maurice, written several decades earlier, was published posthumously in 1971.

E. M. Forster: A BBC Radio Collection E.M. Forster

E. M. Forster: A BBC Radio Collection by E.M. Forster

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