BBC Radio Collection - Winifred Holtby

Winifred Holtby

Category: Full Cast

Narrator: full cast

Tags: Full Cast, Radio Productions, Literature

Winifred Holtby: A BBC Radio Collection South Riding, Anderby Wold, The Crowded Street and More By: Winifred Holtby Narrated by: Sarah Lancashire, Philip Glenister, Carole Boyd, Alice Arnold, Anna Massey, Hugh Dickson, Joanna Mackie, Derek Smith, Joseph Peters, Claire Goose, Jack Klaff, Alison Fiske, full cast Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins Radio/TV Program Release date: 14-12-2023 Language: English Publisher: BBC Audio, Full-cast adaptations of three of Winifred Holtbys best-known novels, plus short stories and bonus programmes about the author, Winifred Holtby was an acclaimed novelist, journalist, feminist and social reformer. Her work encompasses six novels, two short story collections, a play and the first critical study of Virginia Woolf, but she is best known for her posthumously published masterpiece South Riding, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Award. She died in 1935, aged just 37., Born into a Yorkshire farming family, Holtby set much of her fiction in the landscape of he