The Moonstone - BBC Radio Dramatisation - Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins

Category: Full Cast

Narrator: Full Cast

Tags: Full Cast, Radio Productions, Detective, Adults

A large diamond given to Rachel Verinder on her 18th birthday vanishes., Often described as the first and best English detective novel. The Moonstone takes its title from the name given to a mysterious diamond, stolen from the Hindus and turning up at the Verinder house on the wild Yorkshire coast in 1848., In its new life, the moonstone is a present for Rachel on her 18th birthday, but is it destined to remain hers? Some trouble seems to accompany the Moonstone wherever it goes. When Mr Franklin brought it to Rachel in Yorkshire he was followed by three Brahmin priests dedicated to getting the diamond back - by any means., The novel written by Wilkie Collins and first published in 1868, is dramatised in six parts by Brian Gear., Gabriel Betteredge John Sharp Franklin Blake John Telfer Rachel Verinder Sally Baxter Godfrey Ablewhite Geoffrey Beevers Lady Verinder Petra Davies Rosanna Spearman Tammy Ustinov Penelope Josie Kidd Mr Murthwaite Gordon Dulieu Mr Candy Danny Schiller