Download Vanity Fair: BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation AudioBook Free
Stephen Fry narrates this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the famous Victorian comic book. Orphan Becky Clear and rich Amelia Sedley are best friends at Pass up Pinkerton's Academy for TEENAGERS. On leaving institution, ambitious, social-climbing Becky looks for a abundant man to support her, as the sweet-natured Amelia satisfies her old good friend Dobbin, who is instantly captivated. Becky takes a job in the service of Sir Pitt Crawley, and uses her charm to hook his dashing child. However, matrimony to Captain Rawdon of the Guards will not provide the lot of money she seeks. In the mean time, Amelia rejects the faithful Dobbin and becomes employed to the good looking George Osborne - but future has some shocks in store on her behalf, too. As time goes on, the young ladies' fortunes rise and fall. Warfare, financial disaster and the wreck of her reputation leave the resourceful Becky undaunted, but Amelia discovers it harder to tolerate fate's blows. It'll be many years before their account is played out out, and their futures finally made a decision.... William Makepeace Thackeray's classic satire of passion and ambition, first posted in 1847 and 1848, is a deliciously ironic portrait of English contemporary society and its own mores. This interesting 2004 radio production, published for the first time on audio, includes a distinguished solid including Emma Fielding as Becky Clear, Katy Cavanagh as Amelia and Toby Jones as Jos Sedley. Length: 5 time approx.
