"Basil" by Wilkie Collins [A BBC RADIO 4 FULL-CAST DRAMATISATION] In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to the linen-draper's sexually precocious daughter, and the shocking betrayal, insanity, and death that follow, Collins reveals the bustling, commercial London of the nineteenth century wreaking its vengeance on a still powerful aristocratic world.
Lymstock was a town with more than its share of shameful secrets - a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate-mail caused only a minor stir.
But all of that changed when one of the recipients, Mrs Symmington, committed suicide. Her final note said 'I can't go on'. Only Miss Marple questioned the coroner's verdict of suicide. Was this the work of a poison-pen? Or of a poisoner?
Jonathan Swift's classic satire, in a brand new dramatisation starring Arthur Darvill (Doctor Who) as Gulliver. This dramatisation was broadcast in three parts in February 2012 by BBC Radio 4.