Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey (BBC Radio Dramatization)

Catherine Morland, the heroine of Northanger Abbey, is a plucky tomboy longing for the kind of adventures that she fervently consumes in the popular gothic novels of the day. She is whisked off to Bath with her friends the Allens for her first foray into society. It is a time and place of rigid social decorum, where an ambiguously phrased salutation or a damp afternoon can cause as much seismic anxiety and dread as a blood-stained dagger or an imprisoned governess in one of her favourite books.

Episodes: 3

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: February 2009 

Size: 159 MB