Rogue Herries BBC - Hugh Walpole
Category: Radio Productions
Narrator: Full Cast
Tags: Radio Productions, Full Cast, Historical Fiction
Rogue Herries A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation By: Hugh Walpole Narrated by: Mark Bonnar, Gavin Muir, Jane Whittenshaw, full cast, Jane Slavin, Deborah Berlin Series: Herries Chronicles, Book 1, Dramatized Adaptation Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins Radio/TV Program Release date: 02-06-2022 Language: English Publisher: BBC Audio, A BBC Radio adaptation of Hugh Walpoles historical novel, set in the Lake District during the 18th century., 1730. Driven by a wild romantic impulse, Francis Herries uproots his family from Doncaster to the lakeland valley of Borrowdale. Accompanied by his housekeeper/mistress, Alice, they settle in his tumbledown ancestral home, Herries, in the shadow of the Cumberland fells., Proud, stubborn and temperamental, Francis cuts himself off from his brother, spurns his long-suffering wife and becomes embroiled in drink and debauchery. When he sells Alice at Keswick Fair, his reputation is ruined, and the locals dub him Rogue Herries. His fate is sealed when he falls
